✓ | BACK TO YOU , DAIGE AU ( 1 )

twenty six. the mccall house

STILES AND PAIGE TOOK DEREK TO SCOTT'S UNTIL HE CAME BACK FROM TALKING TO PETER, Paige was totally against it, but Peter could know why Kate would want to turn Derek back into a teenager and Paige wanted her boyfriend back more than anything else.

The drive to the McCall house was unusually quiet. Actually, I'm lying. Derek was asking a lot of questions while Paige was figuring out why he was like this herself, but she came up with nothing. She only had himself and the fact his eyes were blue to go on with, so she wasn't that surprised when she didn't think of anything.

The three walked through the door, Derek closing the door behind him while Stiles led the two. "We're going to wait here for Scott"The boy stated seriously. "We're going to sit quietly, we're not going to call or talk to anyone...". "Do I talk to you?"Derek asked him curiously as they got into the kitchen.

"No"

"Fine..."

"Good"

"Who's going to talk to him?"Derek questioned, pointing in front of him which turned out to be Rafael with a bag of Chinese food in his hands, causing Stiles to jump a little. "Are you getting taller?"He asked annoyed. "What are you guys doing here?"Rafael questioned, putting his free hand inside of his trouser pocket.

"We're waiting for Scott..."Paige answered. "Yeah, so am I and I'm waiting for Selina too"Rafael stated when Paige noticed Derek furrow his eyebrows at the girls name, but he quickly shook it off and Paige lost hope in him remembering. "We're supposed to have dinner, I brought extra, you guys hungry?"

"Yeah"

"No, we're not hungry"Stiles spoke up as Paige and Derek tried to answer. "No, I'm starving"Derek bluntly said. "None of us are hungry, thanks though"Stiles continued awkwardly. "Okay, well if you're not hungry, Stiles, your friends can still eat with us"Rafael decided. "What are your names?"

"Miguel and Mirabel"Stiles revealed and the two looked at him frustrated and confused until the Stilinski put a hand on each of their shoulders. "My cousins Miguel and Mirabel, from Mexico"Rafael took a pause before asking the two something in Spanish which they of course understood, but Stiles being Stiles, didn't.

"Oh my god"He said stunned and Derek answered in Spanish too, giving a sarcastic grin to Stiles. "Y esta adolescente también es molesta"Paige added on, giving the same grin. "Fantastic"Rafael said delighted. "Egg roll?". "Hell, yeah"Derek agreed happily as the two went over to the bag of Chinese food.

The four gathered around the table with the Chinese food on their plates and not saying anything about anything. Paige wanted to beat Stiles up, for many reasons like interrupting her and lying about her name, you get the point. She would've done it, but Scott's Dad was there and he was an FBI agent.

"So, uh, Miguel, Mirabel"Rafael spoke up, causing the pair to look up at him. "What did you say your last names were again?". "Oh, it's Juarez"Stiles stepped in and Paige exhaled frustrated with her eyes shut, she wasn't even going to bother with trying to answer herself if Stiles was going to do it every single time. "Cinqua, Tiago"

"That's quite a mouthful"Rafael remarked as Derek gave Stiles a confused. "How do you spell that?"Derek gave him a curious, sarcastic response to him before Stiles turned to the FBI agent once again. "Phonetically"He answered with his mouth full. "We don't come to the states of the United America much..."Paige spoke up, playing along annoyed.

"What the-"Stiles murmured confused, looking at the woman and she just rolled her eyes. "Mr McCall, you're an FBI agent?"Derek asked the man after seeing his badge. "He's low level. Very low level, he doesn't even have a voice"Stiles specified. "Neither will you if continue to interrupt us"Paige hissed, gripping harder on the chopsticks.

"So do you investigate murders?"Derek questioned. "Sometimes, when it's a Federal crime"Rafael added. ""What about fires?"Derek wondered. "Oh my God, I wonder where Scott is"Stiles said with something in his mouth. "Shouldn't Scott be here by now?And shouldn't Selina be here too?We should call either of them"

"What kind of fires are you talking about?"

"Do you know anything about the Hale family?"

~

Rafael had told Derek about the case of the Hale family, how they were all killed in an arson apart from Peter, Cora and Derek himself. He was more than furious on how he was lied to about his family the entire time, especially to Stiles and not Paige since she was the one who lied about where his family was.

But Paige didn't think much of it since Stiles was being a pain in the ass that night for many reasons. "He didn't lie"Paige said as Derek pushed Stiles against the closed door of Scott's bedroom. "I omitted certain truths, vital truths now that I think about it"Stiles specified and it took a moment until Derek let him go.

"I don't want to talk to you"He stated sternly. "I want to talk to the Alpha, I'll talk to Scott". "Okay, I'm going to go get him"Stiles decided, opening the door as he continued to face Derek and Paige. "My phone's downstairs, going to call him real quick..."

"You stay here keep an eye on him, just don't move, okay?"Stiles quickly said. "Don't move"Stiles had started walking down the hall until he slid back to the door to double check if they were still there, but they hadn't moved a step. "Don't- I thought you..."He murmured until walking away fully as Derek had a confused expression on his face.

"You have the tolerance to talk to me?"Paige asked calmly to the Hale beside her. "I'm only asking since I was in on the lying part too...". "No, its fine"Derek said as he sat down on the bed, hanging his head down. "Tell me about this Paige person"Paige suggested, joining beside him. "Your Uncle Peter told me a little bit about her..."

"She had spark and was very pretty..."Derek thought and the two smiled. "I wanted to be with her forever, Peter suggested to have her turned into a werewolf, but when she was bitten, it didn't turn her...". "It killed her"Derek continued, bringing a small tear to Paige's eye as she thought about her past with the younger version of Derek. "That's the only other thing that could happen when you get bitten"

Paige couldn't help but let the small tear roll down her cheek, she missed Derek, she wanted him back to the way he was, he could've stayed like that permanently and even if she loved both Derek's she fell in love with, she got too used to the strong, grown up, hunky version.

"I'm gonna use the bathroom real quick"Paige said, wiping her tear away quickly as she made her way to the bathroom, locking the door behind her and leaving Derek on the bed alone. Paige didn't want to make it obvious that she was crying over the past and make Derek think that Paige was actually the Paige from when he was 15

She grabbed a bit of toilet paper and dabbed under her eyes, taking the tears away before she went back out again, but something paused her. The thing that she was so stumped about on the way over to the house, finally had a closing piece of evidence.

Derek's eyes were blue, he was taken back to the time after Paige's demise, but way before the Hale fire, meaning Derek wouldn't have known that it was Kate who set the first match. Then it hit her, Kate didn't just take him back to when he was a teenager and knew the Argent woman.

Back to when he still trusted her.

After the moment of extreme realization, Paige threw the toilet paper in the bin beside her in a rush and scurried outside the bathroom door to see the one person she had been dreading to see that night. She was standing in front of Derek and the two were now looking at her with a devilish grin on her face.

Kate Argent