Sterek Library (a03 Edition)

Soul-Mark

By: PaigeRhiann on a03

When Derek finally turns eighteen, he’s in New York with Laura.  Its two months after their family died and they’re sat on the sofa of their tiny apartment, watching The Lion King; it’s a tradition between them, the night before Derek’s birthday they’d huddle up in his bed and watch The Lion King.  Except now, there’s no Cora.

They’re sat in stony silence as Simba cries next to his Father’s dead body.  In the apartment above them, a loud clock chimes.

Midnight.

His wrist burns, he hisses.

“Happy birthday” Laura mumbles but Derek barely hears her because he’s too busy watching his wrist as scratchy black letters ink themselves into his skin.  Derek continues to stare at it long after the pain has gone because what the hell does that even say?

“What’s it say?” Laura asks, her voice raising slightly with interest.

“I have absolutely no idea” he admits.

She peers over and her eyebrows go up.  “What the hell? Someone really needs to work on their handwriting”

“I think that’s an S?” he hesitates, “and maybe the first letter is a G?”

“Is that an M?”

“Maybe?”

“Geums?” she blinks, “Gflms?”

“What’s not even a word” he smirks as her mouth struggles around the letters. “and that’s an E”

She spells it out, “G E –something, something – M.  And I think the S is an initial?  Maybe the last name?”

“The middle letter looks like an M... or an N?”

“N” she confirms with a nod. “that’s an I”

“Genim?” Derek tries the name and it instantly feels right.  A smile settles across his lips.

That’s their name.

His wolf purrs happily because it has taken eighteen years and getting his family killed to finally discover the name of his promised.  The person he’s destined to be with.  Or, as Werewolves call it – Mate.

“Genim S.” He repeats

“That’s a really fucking weird name” Laura snorts, turning back to the movie.

“Yeah, it is” he nods.

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He’s twenty-three when he moves back to Beacon Hills to find his sister dead.  Then he gets involved with a bunch of stupid high school kids and kills his Uncle.  Soon after, he turns Jackson (big mistake) and Isaac, Erica and Boyd join his Pack too.  Fighting Jackson was a massive pain in the ass.

It isn’t long after Jackson returns to a regular Werewolf that Derek turns Twenty-four, but without Laura there to watch The Lion King with, Derek just sits in the dark.

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Slowly, the members of the Pack begin to turn eighteen and their Soul-Marks appear in the handwriting of their promised.

Jackson’s birthday is first and predictably his Soul-Mark reads Lydia Martin, in curly twists of twisting which have the i’s dotted with hearts.

There is also little shock when Boyd’s reads Erica R.

Allison is next and there is a collective groan when she comes into school with Scott McCall written in what is probably the worst handwriting Derek has ever seen (including every five year old in the world and his own Soul-Mark).