In too Deep ((Sterek #1))

Chapter Twelve: Back to It

This is the Twelfth chapter of In too Deep. I hope you like it, and please let me know what you think, and if you think I should continue. :)

I would also like to apologize for any mistakes there might be, it's a work in progress, will try to fix them as soon as possible.

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*Derek

Derek sighed softly as Stiles yet again started thinking out loud, which the human had a bad habit of doing. The mumblings never really made any sense to Derek, they were kind of all over the place. "Stiles what are you talking about?" he asked and looked over at the human, who wasn't even listening to him. He sighed again before nudging him lightly, "Stiles" he repeated.

Stiles shook his head slightly "Uh..... what?" he asked and looked over at Derek a bit startled having been deep in thought. "Oh right, I was doing it again wasn't I," he said with a small chuckle.

Derek smiled and nodded slightly "Yeah" he said and chuckled softly before looking at the human again. "What do you got?" he asked

Stiles smiled, "Okay, so you remember when Peter had this big fit about Thalia, your mom, taking one of his memories away, of his daughter Malia" he said and sighed softly. "Anyway I was thinking that maybe she did something similiar to you with this Josie chick" he said and shrugged slightly. "I mean something pretty terrible had to have happened to make her this bat shit crazy, and want to murder a bunch of people just to get to you right" he said and paused a moment as he straightened his thoughts out in his head for a moment. "That being said, maybe it was bad enough for her to want to take the memory from you" he said. "I mean didn't she take away the location of the nemeton" he said, a bit tentatively, considering what happened at the nemeton.

Derek nodded slightly, "Uh...... yeah she did" he said and furrowed his brow as he thought about it. "Yeah I.... uh guess that possible" he said and sighed softly as he tried to wrap his mind around this. "Must have been around sixteen around the time it happened" he said. "Before the fire obviously" he said and paused as he tried to think of something that could have been so bad she would take the memory from him. Was it something he did?

Stiles frowned as he watch Derek process this, kind of wishing he'd just kept his mouth shut. "Doesn't really matter what happened to maker her do this Derek. Nothing you could ever do would warrant this behavior. Besides it could have just been something you witnessed right?" he asked. "Something that could have scared you or something?" he asked.

"Yeah I guess" Derek mumbled, not really believing it. He just couldn't shake the feeling that it al had something to do with him, that this was all his fault. He didn't want to burden Stiles with that though so he just pushed the feelings down for the moment and forced a smile. "You're right Stiles, doesn't matter" he said and sighed softly. "Just got to stop Josie and move on" he said.

Stiles could tell there was still something wrong, but he knew Derek well enough to know he wouldn't talk about it, so he just moved on. "Right" he said with a nod before standing and walking over to the evidence wall, that he put up two days ago. They really hadn't made much progress, but luckily no one else has died either so that was good. He put up a small note about Derek's memory possibly being erased before going to sit back down next to Derek, probably closer the he needed too. "Okay, I think we should start patrolling the woods again" he said and turned to look at Derek. "The police kind of gave up on that part. Plus the case has kind of been taken over by the FBI or something" he said and shrugged slightly. "Anyway, what I mean is if we're going to stop her we kind of have to find her" he said.