Chapter 8
Secrets
Riley felt a tingle sensation up and down her bare back. She opened her eyes to Derek on his side, facing her and touching her back, "What are you doing?" she whispered.
"I'm amazed at how beautiful you are," he said.
"Even with the scars?" she asked.
He stopped what he was doing to look at her, "Your scars are apart of you and I love everything about you," he said before going back to tracing her scars.
She smiled and turned her head to try and go back to sleep, "What is that?" she asked.
"What?"
"The bright shine beyond my curtain," she said.
He laughed, "That would be the sun," he said.
She covered her face with a sheet, "Shut it off," she complained, "I'm so tried."
Derek hopped over her to block out the sun, "Is that better?" he asked.
She peeked at him from under the sheet, "Better," she said.
"Don't you have school?" he asked.
"Yes, but I could really careless about that," she said before pulling him down to kiss her.
"I thought you were tried," he said.
"Not when it comes to you," she said.
Derek hovered over Riley once again before spreading kisses everywhere on her body as he went lower and lower. The kisses tickled Riley a little bit, "Derek," she giggled, "What are you doing?"
"Trust me," he said before continuing his journey down her body, "This is something I should have done last night," he whispered.
"What?" she asked before gasping for air because Derek found what he was looking for.
A little while later, Riley was in the shower singing to herself. She didn't hear the door open and close. The shower curtain was pulled to the side and the next thing she knew, Derek was standing before her naked and in all of his glory.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"Taking a shower," he said, trying to step in.
"Oh, no, I'm taking one. Alone," she said, "You can have the next one." He smirked at her as he eyed her body, "Don't look so smug with yourself," she said.
"You liked what I did, didn't you?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.
She rolled her eyes, "Yes, but it was like a surprise sneak attack. I don't like surprises," she said.
He cleared his throat and held up two fingers, "I gave you two surprises," he said with a smirk.
"Get in here," she said, "But we are only taking a shower. I'm already late for school."
"Whatever you say," he said, getting in behind her.
Derek put shampoo in her hair and washed it for her. All the while not breaking eye contract with her. Once he was done she couldn't take it anymore and pushed him against the wall. He then proceeds to wrap an arm around her waist and turned them so Riley was the one up against the wall.
They were now in Riley's room fully dressed for the day.
"If that's your definition of just taking a shower, I think I'll be over every morning to take one with you," Derek said.
She tossed a towel at him, "I'm even later to school now because of you." He caught the towel easily, "What does this mean now?" she asked.
Derek put on his serious face again, "It means whatever you want it to mean."
Riley walked over to him, "I want us to come to the same conclusion. Last night, I saw you as a completely different person. The boy I knew before the fire."
Derek stepped away from her and headed for the door.
"I'm sorry if I made you upset," she said.
"You didn't. I have things to do today," he said.
"See you later?" she asked.
He didn't respond.
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"Riley," Allison said before sitting down at the lunch table, "I missed you this morning."
"I overslept and missed most of first period. I've been playing catch up all morning. Sorry," Riley replied.
"That's okay, you do look really tried," Allison said.
"How well do you know Scott?" Riley asked.
"Why?"
"Has he told you anything major lately?" Riley asked.
Allison thought for a second, "He hasn't told me he loves me, if that's what you're asking," she said.
"Of course…Have you seen him today?" Riley asked.
"He's in the library with Stiles to study for a chemistry test," Allison said, taking a bit of her salad.
"Stiles knows what the library is used for," Riley said, looking confused.
Allison laughed, "Why do you pick on him? He's nice," she said.
"Saying Stiles is nice is like saying snakes are a great pet," Riley said, getting up, "I'll see you later; I promised Mrs. Mars I'd help her clean the sinks during my lunch period."
"Okay, bye," Allison said.
Riley left the cafeteria and headed toward the library. She walked in and looked around for Scott. She found him in the corner by the window. Scott had his back to her, as she approached the table he turned to look at her. As she sat down next to Stiles, he was giving her a weird look.
"What?" she asked.
"Is Derek with you? Is he here?" Scott asked, looking around the library for him.
She looked at him confused, "No."
"I smell him for some reason," Scott said, looking at Stiles.
"Why would you smell him? Scott, that's weird," Stiles said.
Scott looked back at Riley, "I smell him on you," he said, squeezing her arm.
"Scott, that hurts. Let go," Riley said.
Scott looked at her in the eye and let's go, "I'm sorry," Scott said before moving his chair over a little, "I didn't mean anything by it."
Short moment of silence, "So speaking of smelling things," Riley started and rolled her eyes, "Bad leeway, sorry, Derek told me everything last night. He said that you are a werewolf too."
"Yes," Scott said, scratching his head.
"I just wanted to let you know that I knew and that Allison doesn't know," Riley said, "Why doesn't she know?"
"I haven't told her," Scott said.
"He's afraid Allison would run away if she knew," Stiles added.
Riley and Scott looked at Stiles, "I wish you would run away," Riley said.
Stiles got the hint and left.
"Why do you care if Allison knows or not?" Scott asked.
"She should know. What if she gets hurt because of this secret," Riley said.
"Derek hasn't told you everything," he said.
"What?" she asked.
"Allison comes from a long line of hunters," Scott said.
"Hunters?" she asked.
"She doesn't know anything about that or me and I want to keep it that way," he said.
"Secrets don't stay hidden forever," she said.
"Well, this one is going to have to," Scott said, "Can you send Stiles back? We have to study."
"Sure. Study hard dog brain," Riley said, messing up his hair and she got up from the table.
Scott tries to fix it and stops Riley before she leaves, "Maybe you being with Derek will make him less grumpy," he said.
She turns around, "Okay?"
He smirks, "I can smell him all over you," he said.
Riley turned to walk away without saying anything to Scott.
XXX
Derek and Scott were on top of the roof of the local movie rental place after there had been another attack made by the alpha.
"Starting to get it?" Derek asked.
"I get that he is killing people but I don't get why. We don't go out in the middle of the night murdering people, do we?" Scott asked.
"No, we're predators. We don't have to be killers," Derek said.
"Why is he a killer?" Scott asked.
"That's what we are going to find out," Derek said before turning to leave.
"What's with you and Riley?" Scott asked, stopping him.
"What is it to you?" Derek asked.
"She's my friend. I don't want her to get hurt," Scott said, "I can smell you on her."
Derek rolled his eyes, "I don't judge you for your dating choices," he said.
"I'm not judging. Did you…Is she your mate now?" Scott asked.
Derek sighed, "It doesn't work like that. Werewolves can't mate with humans like that. Only two werewolves can mate for life," he said.
"What is she to you then?" Scott asked.
"Let me worry about that," Derek said before walking away.
XXX
Riley walked down the hall and noticed balloons coming out of Allison's locker, "What is this?" she asked Allison.
"Balloons," Allison said, trying to put them back.
"Is it your birthday? You could have told me. I could have gotten you something," Riley said.
"Sorry, I didn't tell anyone," Allison said.
"Well, someone knows," Riley said, pointing at the birthday card. Allison opened it, "Let me guess, one of the evil twins."
Scott walked up to them, "Is it your birthday?" he asked.
"No," Allison said and the same time Riley said, "Yes."
"I didn't want anyone to know. I don't know how Lydia found out," Allison said.
"I knew it, that evil twin," Riley said, "I'll leave you two."
Riley was heading to her Spanish class when she ran into Derek, who was coming out of the boys' locker room, "I haven't seen you since…well, you know when. And I see you coming out of the boys' locker room. Is there something I should know?" Riley asked.
"I told you I had things to do," Derek said.
"That was your excuse yesterday morning. You still doing those things or is this one of those things were a guy sleeps with the girl once and dumps her the next day? Please tell me now before I start thinking that I did something wrong," she said.
Derek rubs her arms to calm her, "You didn't do anything wrong and it's not one of those things. I have a lot going on right now," he said.
"Scott said something about you not telling me everything. Does it have something to do with that?" she asked. The bell rang, "And once again I'm late because of you."
"We'll talk, okay?" he asked.
"Okay," she agreed, turning to go to class.
Derek walked her to the classroom.
Riley was sitting at lunch when Stiles joined her, "What are you doing here?" she asked him.
"Scott ditched me today to be with Allison," he said.
"I'm sure he had good reason to ditch you but, why sit here?" she asked.
"I don't have anywhere else to sit," he said.
"Allison ditched school?" she asked.
"That is what I said thirty seconds ago. Weren't you listening?" he asked.
"Not to you, no," she said.
"Why don't you like me?" Stiles asked her.
"For one, you are so annoying that I physical want to hurt you," she said.
Stiles flinched, "I didn't do anything to you," he said.
She sighed, "It has a lot to do with your dad," she said.
"My dad?" he asked.
"He saw me at my worse, and I hate that anyone saw me that way," she said, "So I guess it really doesn't have anything to do with you…well, besides the whole annoying me thing."
"I'm sorry," he said, "If it means anything, he never talked about you after the fire."
Riley and Stiles sat, eating their lunch in silence for the rest of the period. There was an announcement minutes before lunch was over, about a reminder about parent-teacher conferences that evening.
"Shit! That's tonight?" Riley asked Stiles, scaring him with her loud outburst.
"Yes. You're parents can't make it?" he asked.
"My parents don't make it to a lot of things these days. Which means I have to come up with an excuse by tomorrow," she said, more to herself.
"How come?" he asked.
"I still don't like you," she said.
"And here I was thinking we made some progress," he said, causing her to laugh.
XXX
Riley had the night off so she was playing catch up with laundry. She was listening to music so she didn't hear someone walking up behind her. She felt a tap on her shoulder. She screamed and turned around to find that it was only Derek. She shut off her ipod, "What the hell? Don't scare me like that!" she shouted.
"I'm sorry. I had no where else to go," he said, out of breath.
She took in his appearance, "You look out of breath. Are you hurt?" she asked.
"I ran here," he said, leaning up against a wall in the laundry room.
"Without a shirt?" she asked, "I'm not complaining but what will by neighbors think."
"No one saw me," he said.
She reached out for him, "You should lie down before you fall down," she said, helping him up to her room. Once she got up in her bedroom, "What happened to you?" she asked.
Derek reached over to pull Riley onto the bed and started to kiss her. One thing led to another and they shared a few hours of bliss together.
Derek was on his back holding Riley in his arms, "What happened to you?" she whispered.
"Scott was right. There are some things I haven't told you," he said, "And I'm ready to tell you now."
Derek told her everything about the alpha and what he wants with Scott. He also told her about what happened at his house with Kate.
"That's everything that I know," Derek said.
"That's a lot to take in," Riley said.
"I know, I'm sorry for that," he said.
"You don't know who the alpha is?" she asked.
"No, it could be anyone. Scott and I are trying to figure it out," he said.
"What does this Kate have to do with all of it?" she asked.
"Kate is Allison's aunt," he said.
"From the hunters' side of the family?" she asked.
"Yes, she's a hunter. I thought she had killed my sister to get to me," he said.
"But it was the alpha?" she asked.
"Yes," he said before kissing her, "No one can know about us. If the hunters or the alpha knew, they could use you against me. And I can't stand the thought of you getting hurt."
"So we have to keep this a secret?" she asked.
"Yes, between you and me," he said.
"And Scott, he already knows since he can smell you on me," she said, raising an eyebrow, "It's going to be hard keeping it from him," she sat up suddenly, "But if Scott can smell it, wouldn't the alpha be able too?" she asked.
Derek sat up next to her and rubbed her back, "Calm down. Let's hope it doesn't come to that because I don't know how I could stay away from you," he said.
"With you around, you'll be able to protect me, right?' she asked.
"I'll always protect you," he said before kissing her.
Derek's phone started to ring from his pants pocket on the floor. He reached for them, "You have a phone?" Riley asked.
"I'll give you the number," Derek said before answering it, "Hello?"
…
"What?" Derek asked.
"What happened?" Riley asked.
…
"Okay, thanks for calling," Derek said before hanging up, "That was Scott. Allison's dad shot and killed a mountain loin that wondered into the school parking lot. He thought it was the alpha."
"He went all Rambo on a more defenseless mountain loin," she said.
"It was probably going to eat someone," he said.
"Oh, right," she said, "Too bad it wasn't going to be one of the evil twins."
"Evil twins?" he asked, lying back down with Riley.
"Have I got a story for you," she said.