Familiar Stranger

Chapter 3

“You promised me, Derek! Promised me that she wouldn’t get hurt, that you wouldn’t hurt her!” Isaac was outraged, even though he was whispering there was a sharpness to his tone that hinted at the fact that he would have been yelling if not for the girl passed out upon the couch at that moment. Her bite marks had healed already, so it was obvious as to what Derek had done. Isaac was furious, yes, he saw the bite as some what of a gift, but he didn’t think it was right for Eva to be turned without her acceptance. 

“The plan had been to open her up to things, yes, it was a rather violent and ridiculous way, which is why I wanted to take her back home. Maybe admit that I knew what she was dreaming about, tell her that her wolf is more than just a wolf. Now there is no turning back, she doesn’t have a single chance to make choices for herself.” Isaac was still pissed off. Maybe not as pissed as he had been after seeing the fang marks that had been embedded in Eva’s skin, the blood that had oozed from them, but he was still mad. Mad to have been betrayed. 

“You know as well as I do that if we hadn’t jumped at the opportunity that they would have.” Derek was on edge, but somehow remained calm faced, even as he spoke of the impending threat of the alpha’s. He was right, which Isaac didn’t at all want to admit, but he would have much rather had Eva under their protection. If the Alpha’s had gotten to her first, they would have filled her head with lies and used the gift she had, or would one day have, against them, not only them, but the innocents of the world. 

As angry as Isaac was he managed to shake the anger off, because Derek had a valid point, not only that, but in a way he was secretly grateful that he would be able to really open up to the girl that he already knew so much about. At first, Isaac hadn’t wanted to spy on her, but Derek couldn’t keep tabs on her any longer, he had other things to attend to, so Isaac took over his post outside of the Rosalsky household, watching, keeping tabs on the beautiful girl he shared most classes with. She started having those dreams shortly after he started watching her, as if she knew he was there, he knew she was having the dreams because she started waking in the middle of the night then. 

“You really care about her don’t you?” Derek asked, his eyes boring into Isaacs. He didn’t glance away, not even for a second. Isaac’s face said it all as he glanced over at the girl laying upon the couch, his eyes searching over each and every aspect of her flawless face. She was beautiful as ever, even if she had gotten a little dirty from the fight with Derek. 

“I do.” Isaac admitted, his head turning to look back at Derek. 

“Good, You can help her orientate herself when she wakes then. I’m going to go have a talk with her mother, she’s going to want to know how things turned out.” That was another deciding factor in things, the persuasive hand of Eva’s mother, it was also something that Isaac had been forbidden from telling her about, Mrs. Rosalsky was to do that on her own. Per her request. 

Derek didn’t wait for a response, a nod of the head from Isaac must have been enough because he was out of the door a moment later. They had taken it upon themselves to move Eva to the apartment while she had been out, making her comfortable upon the couch. So far none of the others had attempted to stop by as of yet, which was a blessing since Derek hadn’t explained everything to them just yet and Isaac had enough on his plate as it was. 

With a heavy sigh he slumped into the chair positioned across from the couch Eva had been laying upon. His eyes, those dreamy blue-green orbs traveling over the expanse of her beautiful face and then over the torn and tattered pieces of her outfit. The blood still stained the clothes, but the torn flesh had healed already. 

She didn’t begin to stir until an hour later, having been out a total of 3 hours, she groaned out at first, as if she was no longer as deeply under as she once had been. He knew she was dreaming, yet close to consciousness when her heart rate accelerated and she began to toss and turn. 

Suddenly she was awake, but the growl that escaped her before she woke was one that could have rivaled quite a few werewolves at that point, Isaac jumped, having been startled by the noise. He nearly toppled the chair and was attempting to right it when Eva’s eyes popped open. 

She shot up on the couch, eyes wide and wild as she glanced around the room, the two colors of her eyes that usually lied dormant, one outlining the other seemed to swirl creating a combination of the two colors before finally settling. Isaac noticed it all and remained silent for a moment. 

“What happened?” She asked, her voice quiet, but it was obvious the confusion and worry that she felt. She was alive, that was a blessing, but she wasn’t in any pain nor was she in a hospital, it was as if that attack was a figment of her imagination. It had all been far too real for that, though. Much more vivid than her imagination was capable of producing. 

Another indicator was the fact that her shirt was stained with blood and ripped to hell, but still, nothing hurt and as she touched the various places in which she should have been torn and bleeding, there was no indication of any wounds. Without thinking she shot up from the couch to stand and rid of her shirt. Tossing it to the side as she examined her torso, not caring that she was only in her bra as she checked for any injuries at all. There were none. Not a single one. 

“Isaac?” She asked as she lifted her head so that her eyes could meet his again. Although they had only just begun talking and maybe even becoming friends, she felt as if she had known him for much longer. It was those eyes, so familiar, technically he was a stranger, but she really didn’t consider him such. She trusted him already, she didn’t believe him to have been the cause for what had happened. Whatever that was that happened anyways. 

“Um, it’s kind of hard to explain. I can tell you, though, that you’re not going to find any injuries. They’ve all healed.” He had a hand on the back of his neck, rubbing it as he tried to think of the best way to explain the situation at hand. 

Things got even more confusing for Eva when Derek came into the room,  he had a duffle bag in hand, stuffed full of things, he tossed it in the direction of the girl, she caught it easily. She had no idea how she had managed that, nor who the hell this man was. 

“No more questions until you get showered and changed. You’ll be here for a while, so we have all the time in the world to explain things.” Derek turned to Isaac then. “Show her the bathroom.” 

Isaac nodded, a little confused himself, he would find out what the hell was going on, exactly, after he showed Eva the bathroom. Even though she still had to be thoroughly confused, she followed him up the stairs and to the large bathroom that connected to the room that was Isaac’s. 

“It’s right through there. I promise I will answer what I can when you come back down.” Isaac intended to keep that promise as Eva remained silent, only nodding, carrying her things into the room and then to the bathroom where she shut the door behind her. Isaac headed back downstairs where he found Derek standing with crossed arms leaning against a large pillar of the studio apartment. 

“What the hell was that? She just woke, she’s confused and probably scared.” Isaac demanded, his voice kept low in case Eva was tapping into her super hearing already. The first day after the bite was always the most confusing. 

“I know, she’s confused, not scared, though. Her mom wants her to stay here until she gets adjusted to life our way and until the Alpha threat is over.” Derek said. 

“And you just accepted that?” Isaac asked slightly bewildered. 

“I don’t have a choice. She’s helping us to get rid of the Alpha’s to find out what it takes to kill them or to get them to move on from Beacon Hills. Without her and the others on her team we would be screwed.” Derek admitted, his voice sounding so calm and reasonable. Which his words were. He was right. They had no choice but to do what Eva’s mother asked. 

“She wants us to explain her part in all this to Eva too.” Derek added, which got a shocked look from Isaac, before his face completely fell, that was the last thing he wanted to do.  How do you tell a girl that her parents are in the business of murder, even if it was for the greater good of things?