It's just what you do / Derek Hale

Part 3

It had two days now since her encounter with Derek, and she hadn't been able to get it out of her head. She had been wondering about a life without being sick, a life of partying and being at school and all that. But what about the bad side of it? What would she have to give up to live like that? She hadn't gotten herself to text him yet.

She closed her math, she couldn't concentrate anyway. She looked at her phone again as a debate started in her head again. Who would win this time?

To: Derek
'I want more information.
Stella'

It took a few hours for him to respond, the man must live a busy life. And when he answered, Stella had already passed out on the couch with her brother on her shoulder, drooling slightly as always.

The ringing of her phone woke her up, a call from Derek popping on the screen. She quickly pushed Stiles off her, taking the phone from the table and heading upstairs. 'With Stella,' she answered the phone as she entered her room.

'Come back downstairs,' it was clear that this was Derek, his voice was already engraved in her head. 'Why?' She asked, cleaning her room a little bit. 'I want to take you for a drive,' she looked out the window to see Derek leaning against his car, looking at the front door. 'It is late,' she stared at him. He must know she was staring at him.

'I will bring you back before one, you said you wanted more information,' he replaced his feet as the girl watched. He really was quite handsome. 'It doesn't mean I agree with whatever you had in mind,' she made clear, taking of her sweatpants to put on a pair of jeans.

'You do not have to, are you coming?' When she looked back through the window, he was staring up at her, he totally just saw her take of her pants didn't he? 'Yes,' she said. She went downstairs, left a note to her brother and dad saying that she was at Lydia's.

When she came outside, the guy looked at her as if she wasn't ever there but opened the door for her anyway. As he got in to the car, he started it without even saying a word.

'I will take you to the park,' he finally spoke. 'My dad is a sheriff,' she reacted, making sure to feel safe. She swear she heard him snicker at the comment. 'I won't hurt you,' he took a left turn, indeed taking her to the park.

The ride was silent, but questions and unease were raging in her head. When Derek stopped the car and they both got out, they entered the park.

It was an uncomfortable feeling to be there, the last time she was here was when she was young, they never really went there again when her mom died. 'Afraid of the dark?' Derek asked, walking with his hands in his leather jacket. 'No,' she reacted, it wasn't a lie, the dark wasn't the problem, the problem was that the last time she was here she got bitten by a dog, and it had let to a lot of fear.

'It's because there is part of you that knows, that still remembers,' he said. She looked at him confused as he started walking to the playground.

'Remember what? I'm not going into the sand,' she said, standing on the side of the grass as he leaned against a sat swings. 'What happened here, if you want more information, you will have to listen,' his figure was just black now, and if she didn't know it was Derek, she would've already been running.

'I am,' a sudden feeling of fear took over her, and Derek must have realised, his voice got softer. 'You have been here before, I can still smell the fear,' the girl was not looking at him anymore, she looked around the park, she didn't want to be here.

'Don't push it away, if you want to remember, Stella, you have to give it a change,' she listened to him closely, but sudden noises threw her off. There was a children's voice, and laughing.

She sat down on the grass, her breathing getting heavier. 'Let it in,' Dereks voice chimed through the memories, his sudden presence being closer than it was before. The laughing stopped as she heard her dads name, screaming her name. She felt a hand on her back but she couldn't tell if that was part of reality. She remembered. It were a pair of red eyes, a dog with rabies her dad had told her, but it was bigger, and it had bitten her.

She shot back to reality, shooting up from the sitting position she had been in, looking at her hands, to see a pair of claws disappearing into her nails. She looked at Derek in shock.

A sudden rage ran through her blood as she looked at Derek. This was his fault. 'What did you do?' A low growl came out as she spoke, but it didn't seem to scare Derek, who was still staring at her with his arms loosely in his pockets.

'You have to accept it,' he spoke. 'There is nothing to expect,' she controlled herself, with all it took, her anger left and she didn't feel the urge to hurt Derek, but she was still mad. 'There is, Stella,' he was silent for a second as Stella focused on her breath. 'You saw it, and you have known it for so long and you have to-' Stella stormed off, pushing the other werewolf with her shoulder as she passed him.

He grabbed her by her wrist, her eyes flashing back to blue in a sudden anger. 'Let me go,' she growled. 'No,' he responded, showing blue eyes of himself. 'You need to accept it if you want to stop being so sick,' he grabbed her other wrist as well at the sight of her claws coming out again.

'And you need a pack,' he spoke. 'I do not need you,' she made clear. 'Than how are you going to control this?' He forcefully pulled up her wrist, showing her claws. 'Like I have been for years,' she pulled away, showing that she had enough strength to do so.

He was taken aback by the mixed feelings coming from her, he could hear her heartbeat fasten with every word they spoke. 'If you do that, it will just kill you!' Flashing his eyes one more, his irritation also getting the best of him.

He needed her and her strength, and she had to accept what she was now, before she can't handle it anymore. 'I have nothing to do with this!' She screamed, her fangs growing as well. 'I don't care! You are part of this now! And you need me to control yourself! Look at you, not even that angry and you can't control it,' and with that, she punched the guy in his face, if he wanted to see her power so bad, she would show it to him.