Sterek : Unchained

Chapter 11: And Then There Was Two

Derek

Pacing around this strange room made me feel nervous. I didn't know what to do. Stiles was exhausted, I felt like we were in a dream.. this was all so overwhelming.

I cracked our door to listen better at their conversation.

"The more they don't know, the better. We need to enforce more fear into the boy. I need more power. Once he has fear and nightmares, Derek will soon follow after. This will all fall into place accordingly. They'll be so far into their heads that they'll have no idea the impact they'll have by revealing themselves to the humans." Jeremiah plotted.

I could hear my mother's heartbeat. It was steady and calm. I still couldn't believe she was down there, alive.

Jeremiah stopped talking and they started to head upstairs. I quickly got in bed with my sleeping stiles and pretended to be asleep aswell.

I could feel Jeremiahs steps into the room. He never walked too far in but he stood there checking on us. It was eerie. It made me furious.

After a moment or two, he left the room and closed the door. I immediately got up and left the room quietly.

We were infact in a hotel. I studied the rooms around, and I tried to find more information on this plan. There was nothing.

I needed to leave, get better answers, try to understand me and Stiles's involvement to be one step ahead. So I called Scott.

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"Where are you guys exactly? It's 3 in the morning Derek." Scott said over the phone.

"In a hotel, I've walked a few blocks down, I'll send you the location, would you please just meet me here so we can figure this out?" I snapped.

"Yeah, okay. I'll see you guys soon." He said.

After about 20 minutes, Scott arrived to the location I sent.

"Sorry I took so long, I had to be quiet and not let my mom find out I was sneaking out. Now what's going on?" Scott asked as he got off his bike.

"Stiles and I were in Jeremiahs trance, we both snapped out of it and played along and ended up here. I think he's going to try and make stiles, me, and Talia shift in front of humans tomorrow. I'm not sure what to do." I said.

"Wait, you're telling me you were in this hotel with him, and stiles is up there all alone? What's wrong with you?" Scott said brushing past me in a hurry to get to stiles.

I held his arm to hold him back. "He's fine, he's asleep and Jeremiah thinks I am too so before we get caught, you and me? We're going to make a plan." I said firmly.

Scott rolled his eyes and shifted his weight to one hip. I started to panick internally.

"Okay well we need to know where this is happening tomorrow. If we can figure that out, I can get Chris to help stop it. Derek you need to take me in there, maybe I can find something. You need to protect Stiles." He said.

I balled up my hands in fists because just the idea that Scott thinks I'm not doing enough to protect stiles was burning my skin.

"Okay, this way." I said through gritted teeth.

We walked to the hotel and made it to the room. We started to sneak in and made it past the main room.

"Okay, get to stiles, I'll take a look around here and I'll text you. Wake him up and let's get out of here." Scott said.

I didn't hesitate. I quickly went up the stairs to our room.

Stiles was sprawled out on the bed with the sheets everywhere but the bed. It made me grin. I sat on the bed next to him and cupped his face in my hand.