✓ | BACK TO YOU , DAIGE AU ( 1 )

twenty. when death takes another

"AIDEN!"Ethan cried out to his stabbed brother whilst he pulled the sword out of his stomach, the weapon clattering onto the ground by his shoes. Derek and Paige rushed to him before he could fall on his back, instead they had him sitting up as he sobbed to his death, black fluid dripping down his mouth

They didn't want to, but Ethan and Selina walked towards him with Argent. The two wolves knelt down to the dying teenager, tears drenching their face too. "Does it hurt you...as much...as it hurts me?"Ethan chocked out and the two nodded, a tear streaming down Paige's face as she watched the boy die in front of her.

Aiden and Ethan pressed their heads against each others as Selina's breath quivered, a hand on Ethan's shoulder. "It's okay"Ethan assured which somehow made Ethan and Selina chuckled lightly in a sad way. "Lydia never believed...I was one of the good guys anyway"

Ethan chuckled more lively as Selina continued to let her feelings out. "She'll believe me"Derek told him, not knowing what else to say in the moment. The couple looked at each other, still in shock of what was happening, Ethan put his head against Aiden's again as he started to strain from the pain, his twin brother shushing him gently.

Paige slowly held the boys hand when she somehow took away his pain in his last moments, that's when the werewolves heard Aiden's heart stop, causing Derek to help him lay on the ground gently as he fell back. That's when their pain started as his ended.

Selina had her head in her hands as she sobbed, Aiden was one of her friends, she didn't want to lose him on the same day as Allison. But she couldn't help but just cry. She looked up from her hands, shaking her hair out her face and her hands covering her mouth when Selina looked at Paige.

"Come here"Paige signaled, knowing that the girl needed a hug and so Selina went over to the woman and Paige took her daughter in her embrace as the two got off their feet. Selina's head set on Paige's shoulder, tears continuing to go down her face from the death of Aiden.

But Derek couldn't help himself on joining the girls in the embrace.

~

"Your leaving?Seriously dude?"Selina asked annoyed as she stood with Ethan at his locker whilst he put all his things inside his bag a few days later. "I can't stay here, Lins..."Ethan stated. "Not after what happened to Aiden...". "Good enough excuse..."Selina murmured with a glum look on her face as she looked down.

"You were like a little sister to us..."Ethan described. "Even if you were Scott's, a lot's changed since Paige came back, you've got this new spark to yourself...". "We've developed a good relationship since her time alive again..."Selina revealed and Ethan nodded surprised. "And that hug she gave me the other night was...different"

"I'm not even gonna ask"Ethan decided scared and Selina rolled her eyes, knowing he was just being dirty minded and she did it in a good way. "But I've never seen Derek so happy...". "Me either"Selina agreed when Ethan closed his locker before facing Selina as he adjusting his bag.

"Your gonna have a good life, Selina"He stated. "Good grades at this school, maybe find yourself a boyfriend, but then, you know, its the 20th century so your both gonna end up breaking up at some point..."

"Not wrong..."Selina agreed with a chuckle as she tilted her head. "Then there's gonna be a guy, who'll do anything to protect you"Ethan revealed. "Supernatural problems or normal...it doesn't matter if he's a bad-ass werecoyote, kanima...". "Your seriously listing that one?"Selina interjected frustrated.

"Its the thought that counts, Selina"Ethan stated and Selina grinned. "But no matter who that guy is, he's gonna protect you from anything he can get his grubby hands on, even if it kills him..."Ethan then held out his pinkie with his lips pressed together.

"Promise you'll do that for me?Live your life as best as you can?"He asked and Selina smiled before connecting her pinkie with his. "Pinky promise..."Selina promised before they both chuckled and embraced each other in one final hug.

"See you soon, Little Wolf..."

"Later Steiner..."

~

Paige was still upset about how she had to watch a young boy die right in front of her, not long after learning about another youngster dying. So many feelings went through her that night, nothing she had experienced before, she took away Aiden's pain at his final breaths which was something she didn't expect to work.

And the hug with her, Derek and Selina gave her hope and happiness, she wasn't alone and had a family of her own. A boyfriend, a daughter and a pack who had accepted her as soon as she came back from the dead, they already knew her story and didn't have any use for interrogating her or to see her as a potential enemy.

Paige had felt entirely whole.

The woman needed time to think, she went out shopping with Braeden since she was in town for a couple days and needed someone else to talk to about what happened. Of course she had Derek to talk to, but she wanted to get someone else's view on it.

Braeden had comforted her about what she and the pack all went through in one day as a best friend should, but it was already dark after they had finished their coffee so Paige decided to leave in order to go back home.

"Baby, that's me..."Paige announced as she walked into the loft, but her voice trailed off noticing all the mess and scattered casings on the floor. But that wasn't the important that scared the shit out of her.

Derek wasn't even there.

There was a trail of blood on the floor by the large table, and Paige could definitely tell that it was Derek's, but also a chemo signal was picked up. Scared and shocked. She noticed an empty smoke grenade can on the floor by the pillar which caused her to furrow her eyebrows in confusion.

Paige scanned the room for anymore signs of what happened there when she saw a note on a shell casing from a different bullet. She picked it up and read the fancy hand writing, but what it said wasn't fancy, it was a threat.

'You died first Paige, now its Derek's turn to take up the torch'