The Bite

Chater 8

Derek watches Stiles plop back on the couch. Derek walks over and lifts Stiles’ legs then he sits and puts Stiles legs over his lap. Stiles looks at him curiously but doesn’t question it. “Well for starters,” Derek reaches over to the table and grabs the remote turning off the TV. “We need to talk about you being a wolf and a smell you haven’t learned yet.”

Stiles looks at Derek who has started rubbing his leg, “Derek your uh your freaking me out.”

Derek laughs but doesn’t stop rubbing Stiles’ leg, “Why am I freaking you out Stiles?”

“Well your uh you Stop that!” Stiles says not able to think with Derek rubbing his leg

Derek stops looking hurt, “I'm sorry Stiles.”

“Please don’t look hurt Derek, I just couldn’t think with you doing that. Your freaking me out because well you put my legs in your lap, a couple thing, then you started rubbing my leg, another couple thing. What's going on?”

Derek chuckles, “Well Stiles you remember our convo about your wolf having a crush on me?”

“Yeah Derek it was like five minutes ago or whatever.  Why?”

“Well Stiles we are mates, remember when you said you think you were born to be a wolf. Well you were and when a human is born to be a wolf it means their mate is a born wolf.”

Stiles is gaping at Derek, “I….u….we…WHAT?”

Derek chuckles, “Basically, you were born to love me and my wolf.” Derek frowns, “But you can refuse of course it’s not like you love me or you die, you can choose not to be my mate.”

“What happens I choose not to love you?” Stiles asks and Fear flashes in Derek's eyes, “Whoa Derek I'm not saying I don’t I'm just curious.”

Derek smiles, “Always curious. Well if you choose not to love me, I will slowly die. Once I die you will no longer feel like you’re missing something and your free to love anyone you want.”

 Stiles frowns thinking of Derek slowly dying because he didn’t love him, then he shakes his head because that won’t happen. “Well don’t worry Derek you won’t be dying…”

Derek smiles bright “So you do have feelings for me?”

Stiles chuckles, “Yeah I do, they started the day I saw you in the woods.”

Derek smiles, “Same here sort of, my wolf noticed you as someone special and I just thought it was because he saw your loyalty and smartness. But he realized our mate long before I did.”

Stiles chuckles, “I think our wolves are smarter than us.”

“He's right Derek we are smarter.”  Derek frowns, “Shush it you.” He thinks to his wolf.

Stiles looks at Derek then the hand Derek has resting on his leg and he smiles, then he remembers he called Scott while Derek was out. “Derek are we telling Scott? If not I might need to move he should be here any minute.”

Derek frowns, “I don’t want you to move, I like having you close. But your right we shouldn’t dump all this on Scott at once.”

Stiles sighs and moves his legs off Derek but then he scoots closer to Derek so he can lay his head on his shoulder. “How is this for close?”

Derek chuckles and wraps his arm around Stiles, just then the doorbell goes off. Stiles sighs, “I’ll get it.”