ANOTHER STORY ANOTHER TIME

CHAPTER EIGHT * MICHAEL

Stiles and Lydia walked out to his new baby blue jeep, Lydia snickered at him,

"Boy Stilinski, you don't do anything halfway anymore, do you?" He looked at her and schooled her,

"I'm used to driving a Hummer, but even with the allocated money from the government, I still don't think I could afford one and accomplish what I have come here to do!" Lydia looked him in the eye, she had never known Stiles Stilinski to be materialistic before. She then questioned him,

"Which is what? You keep saying you have some sort of plan, but you have never elaborated?"

He looked at her, he trusted her, he actually never wanted to tell anyone his plan beside Ethan, so he drove until it started to get pretty awkward.

"Ok." He started to say as they were pulling up to his new property. Looking at Stiles confused, Lydia questioned,

"Why did we come out here, this used to be Derek's old property, and doesn't the county own it due to some hidden back taxes or something?" Stiles nodded,

"That is correct, used to be, I purchased it this morning from the very quote ''EAGER TO SELL" Mr. Smithers!" Lydia laughed,

"The county must have taken a major hit, and why would you want this land, I mean you and Derek didn't get along? I didn't think you guys were even friends, wait, wait a second!" Stiles looked at her,

"No Lyds it's not what you think!" He said calmly. Lydia kind of smiled,

"Did you have feelings for Derek, I mean sometimes I could since an undertone to the bickering you guys always did and even Isaac said......." She stopped as she saw Stiles's mind hit a roadblock. She had hoped he hadn't heard her mention Isaac's name! Stiles searched his memory,

"Wait a second, where is Isaac, or Cora or Derek for that matter?" Lydia eyes widened, she turned away from him "Dammit what are you hiding from me?" Stiles looked her dead in the eyes, she shook,

"I can't, I really, I don't know!" Stiles could since distrust in her statement!

Stiles looked at her with his red alpha eyes,

"Lydia, I know your lying, remember I have the ability to smell emotions!" Stiles was getting agitated, "Besides your heart rate went up." Lydia calmed herself down, trying to control her heart rate.

"Stiles honestly, all I know is that Derek and Isaac are out of town!" Stiles accepted her statement, he still had a feeling she was telling him only half truths, but she had managed to lower her heart rate to the point he figured she thought she was fooling him. Lydia turned to face him. "Now Sergeant Stilinski, again I ask, why did you purchase this land?" They both sat down on a very large trunk of a fallen tree. Stiles looked out over the lake that was about a hundred yards from where they sat.

"Okay, there's no way to make this long story short so, I was fresh out of AIT, and headed to Iraq!"

3rd person Pov

Stiles was sitting in the large room which was almost warehouse size with a couple hundred other new and reenlisted soldiers. Like Stiles a large percentage of them were fresh from their training units. He was nervous, this was even scarier than when he was pulled off the bus right before basic training. Some of the soldiers were cleaning their weapons while some were reading. Most of the soldiers were sitting on their green army regulation duffle bags or their overstuffed backpacks.