When We Were Young: Part Two (Derek Hale)

Chapter 8

I quickly swam over to Derek to help Stiles hold him up. I dared not to steal a second look at Derek because boy did he look pissed. 

"What the hell was that!?" he yelled "Why did you just stand there"

"I froze, shut up" I said while spitting water out of my mouth.

"It could have killed you" He said. 

"It didn't" I shot back

"Can you guys do this later?" Stiles asked but we ignored him

"This is why I don't want you around this Haley, you are human you will get hurt and you can't think straight when it comes to this kind of danger" Derek said.

"What you're calling me dumb now, Stiles is a part of it and he's human" I said.

"I'm not calling you dumb, I am just saying the crap you learned in cop school won't do anything against the supernatural" Derek said. 

"Yeah well I don't see you doing much good either" I said. I think my comment shut him up because we all floated in silence for a while. 

"Okay" Stiles said.

"Can you get me out of here before I drown" Derek asked. 

"You're worried about drowning? Did you notice the thing out there with multiple rows of razor sharp teeth" Stiles said

"Did you notice that I am paralyzed from the neck down in eight feet of water!" Derek yelled. 

"It's seven" I corrected. I just earned a glare.

"Alright come on" Stiles said to me and we started to swim Derek to the edge.

"Wait, wait stop, stop" Derek said. We both looked and saw that ugly thing walked along the edge of the pool...like it was waiting for something. 

"What is it waiting for?" I asked. We watched as it tried to stick it's hand into the water but it acted like it burned him so he quickly retracted it. 

"Did you see that, I don't think it can swim" I said.

We have been holding Derek for a couple hours now and holy shit. I am burning. "Hey, Haley how ya doing over there, cause I don't think I can do this much longer" Stiles said. 

"I'm doing peachy" I lied. I saw Stiles look over at the phone and so did Derek. 

"nonononono, don't even thing about it" Derek yelled. 

"Yeah, Stiles I can't hold him up myself if you go get that phone" I said. If my werewolfness was working then hell yeah I could hold him up but it decided that it wanted to disappear the only time I wanted it.

"Could you guys trust me just this once" Stiles asked. 

"No!" Derek yelled.

"I trust you Stiles but I don't really want to drown trying to hold him up" I said

"I won't take that long, I'm just going to call Scott" Stiles said. "We have been holding you up for the past two hours" Stiles told Derek.

"Yeah and when the paralyses wares off who do you think is going to find that thing huh you? Haley?" Derek said. 

"Haley has a gun" Stiles said. Wait a minute... I HAVE A GUN!

"OH!" I reached in my pocket and pulled out my gun hoping it would work since it's been under water. 

"Wait Haley, you are just going to piss it off" Derek said. 

"What else am I supposed to do" I asked. I took Derek's silence as a ode to continue what I was going to do. I pulled the trigger and emptied my whole clip into it. Afterwards it was just lying on the ground. 

"Did I kill it?" I asked

"I don't know" Stiles said. Not taking any chances we drug Derek with us to get the phone. As soon as we got to the edge the thing ran over to us and squealed. This caused a small scream to escape my lips and we went farther in the water. 

"Dumb thing played us" I said. 

"Alright I'm doing it" Stiles said and let go of his half of Derek. Oh shit.

"Stiles" We both yelled. I mustered up all the strength I could but I don't know what was wrong with me. It's like today my body said that I can't be a werewolf. I was doing fine until Stiles got the phone and I started to loose grip on Derek.

"I'm sorry" I told him. 

"It's fine just keep me up as long as you can" Derek said. 

I stayed determined, I used every inch of strength left in my body to keep him up and to my surprise it worked. Derek and I were still alive. Once Stiles got back and returned to Derek's side it was a giant amount of relief.

"Tell me you got him" I asked. I took his silence as a no. Dammit. We kept Derek afloat for about another fifteen minutes.

"I don't think I can do this anymore, I need something to hold on to" Stiles said. I agreed with him. Stiles started to lead us to the diving boards and I was helping. I was more focused on keeping Derek's head above the water because it kept falling back in. Once we reaching the diving board we couldn't get a grip and we started to sink. Then we were thrown out by the one and only Scott Mccall. I watched as Scott transformed into a werewolf and saved the day. As soon as the creature looked into the mirror and was confused and ran away, I knew exactly what it was. A Kanima. I was too focused on Scott to enjoy what I just discovered. Why couldn't I do what Scott did? What was wrong with me?

Scott and Stiles were trying to figure out what the thing was while I was walking back to my car ignoring all of them. What did I do today instead cause more problems? Maybe Derek was right, I shouldn't be involved in any of this. 

"Haley" I heard Derek said from behind me. I quickly turned around to face him.

"What" I asked.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"I didn't...I couldn't help like I wanted to tonight and I'm sorry if I made things worse I will stay out of it, looks like you get what you've always wanted." I said and got in my car and drove off. Leaving Derek standing there in confusion.