Something old, something new. (Stiles Stilinski)

Derek Hale

We got out of school almost an hour ago and now we were walking through the preserve to try and find Scotts inhaler that he dropped last night. We came to a little creek and me being the genius that I am slipped on the first rock. I thought I was going to land in the water until someone caught me. I looked up to see Stiles in front of me pulling me up. He helped me across the creek and almost fell in himself.

"I don't-I don't know what it was...it was like I had all the time in the world to catch the ball...and that's not the only weird thing--I can hear stuff I shouldnt be able to hear, smell things..." he explained to us.

"Smell things...like what?" Stiles asked.

"Like the mint mojito gum in your pocket." he said looking Stiles.

"What? I don't have-" Stiles stopped as I put my hand in his pocket and pulled out a broken piece of gum.

"Weird.." I muttered as I held it up before I threw it to the ground.

I looked at Stiles to see he was looking at me with this weird look on his face.

"So all this started with that bite?" I asked walking up to Scott and ignoring the look on Stiles face.

"W-what if its like an infection?" Scott asked looking between me and Stiles. "Like my bodys flooding with adrenaline before I go into shock or something."

Stiles glanced to me quickly before looking back to Scott with a worried expression. "You know I think I've heard of this. It's a specific kind of infection."

"Are you serious?" Scott asked nervously.

"Yeah" Stiles said nodding his head. "Yeah I think it's called lycanthropy."

I rolled my eyes and patted Scotts shoulder walking past him with a sad look on my face.

"What's that? Is it bad?" Scott asked freaking out.

"Oh yeah, it's the worst." I said nodding.

"But only once a month." Stiles added catching up to us.

"Once a month?" Scott questioned looking confused.

"Mhm, on the night of the full moon" Stiles replied and I started howling.

Stiles and I laughed as Scott expression changed from one of worry to one of annoyance. I nudged Stiles as Scott pushed past him and started walking away.

"Hey you're the one who heard a wolf howling!" Stiles remarked accusingly.

"There could be something seriously wrong with me!" Scott complaimed getting frustrated.

"I know, you're a werewolf!" I exclaimed.

"Okay obviously we're joking." Stiles said as he saw Scotts face. "But if you see me in shop class trying to melt all the silver, it's cause Fridays the full moon."

Scott rolled his eyes as he walked away, looking for where he dropped his inhaler. I turned to Stiles to find him staring at me.

"Um..Stiles..you okay?" I asked tilting my head at him.

"Uh..yeah..um..we should probably catch up to Scott." he said scratching the back of his neck.

We caught up to Scott who was looking around for where he dropped his inhaler.

"I could have sworn this was it, we saw the body, the deer came running, and I dropped my inhaler." Scott told us, listing almost everything that happened last night.

"Yeah it was here." I confirmed. "The body was just over there." I pointed to a little rise in the ground.

"Wait you found the body?" Stiles asked.

"Yeah. I found it accidentally when we were looking for Scotts inhaler." I said confused that Scott didnt mention this.

"Why didn't you tell me she was with you during this whole thing?" Stiles asked Scott.

"I thought you knew. I mean she was still with me when your dad caught you." Scott replied looking at the ground around him for his inhaler.

"Is that what that cut is on the side of your head?" Stiles asked turning to me and moving my hair out of the way so he could see the cut properly.

"Yeah. One of the deer got me." I said looking at the ground.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Stiles asked concerned.

"You never asked." I said moving away from him and looking for Scotts inhaler.

I crouched on the ground and moved a few leaves around looking for Scotts inhaler when he spoke.

"Lily...come back here now." he said warily.

I looked up to see someone standing not far from me, wearing all black which made him look very shifty. I stood up moving back until Stiles grabbed my hand and pulled me behind him.

"What are you doing here?" the guy asked angrily. "This is private property."

"Uh sorry man, we didn't know." Scott said apoligetically. "We were just looking for something, but forget it."

The guy tossed Scott his inhaler, and he caught it with ease. We all examined the inhaler in Scotts hand and looked back at the guy to see him walking away.

"Alright c'mon I gotta get to work." Scott said turning around to walk away, until Stiles put his arm out to stop him.

"Dude that was Derek Hale!" Stiles exclaimed still holding my hand. "You remember right? He's only like a few years older than us."

"Remember what?" Scott asked, looking down at our hands.

"His family. They all burned to death in a fire like 10 years ago." he explained to us.

"But he was at school." I said remembering the conversation between my mother and my father a few years ago.

"How do you know that?" Stiles asked looking down at me.

"Well he's only a few years older than us and he's still alive so he would have been at school when the fire happened." I said gesturing with my free hand.

"See this is why we keep you around!" Stiles said.

"Really? I thought it was because-" Scott said smirking before Stiles jumped towards him and covered his mouth.

"Okay..." I said looking between the 2 boys before turning around, walking the other way. "C'mon."

**

After we dropped Scott off at work the car ride was quiet.  It wasnt awkward but it was a weird kind of comfortable. After a few minutes I broke the silence.

"What did Scott mean before?" I asked turning to look at Stiles.

"When?" Stiles asked not taking his eyes off the road.

"When you, like, jumped on him in the woods." I said.

"He didnt mean anything." Stiles said quickly, his eyes flicking to me then back to the road.

"Now I know it meant something!" I said turning my entire body so I could talk to him properly.

"No-well-he-no" Stile stuttered. "I mean, he meant that you keep us out of trouble."

"Well who else would risk everything for you two idiots?" I asked laughing a little.

"Yeah why do you risk everything for us?" he asked pulling up to my house and putting the car in park.

"Because you're my best friends and I love you guys!" I said grabbing my bag off the seat behind me.

I gave him a small smile before getting out of his car and walking up to my house. Once I unlocked my door, I turned around and waved at him before walking into my house.