Chapter 17
“You’re a Hale aren’t you?” Emma asks Cora, who until then had just awkwardly watched Ethan reunite with his family.
“I’m Cora Hale” Cora smiles. “Derek mentioned that Laura and him used to meet with you and your wife and that you really did help Laura with running a pack even though their pack only had two people.”
“You look so much like you sister.” Emma has this really motherly vibe over her and it makes Cora feel really comfortable. “Speaking of Derek how is he?”
“Derek is great, he finally moved on from his angry and depressed mood. He also rebuild the Hale House, we live there now.” It’s really easy to talk with Emma and Cora always get really excited when she gets to talk about her pack. “My friends Liam, Mason, Corey and Brett are always at the house with us, so is Kira the girlfriend of Scott McCall our alpha and Derek’s best and only friend.”
“It’s really nice to hear that Derek has found happiness again. He used to be so down always, and he still had Laura back then so I can’t imagine how it felt for him to lose her too.” Cora can’t either, she was so convinced that all of them were dead so she had kind of excepted it. This had made finding out that one of her siblings was alive kinda bittersweet.
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“So you’re Scott’s roommate?” Brett asks Blake. He took the boy out for a while because celebrating Christmas with the McCall pack must have been great and all that but Blake looked so uncomfortable in the house.
“Yes he is.” Blake feels more comfortable with this Brett kid then with any of Scott’s other friends, they all seem to be connected in some weird way and Brett seems to be a bit of an outsider, like he’s not as connected as the others. “He is a cool guy, a bit messy and always talks about his girlfriend Kira.”
Brett laughs, it sounds familiar. Kira talks a lot about Scott too. “I don’t really know you, I just met you a few days ago. You should tell me something about yourself. Don’t tell me about you sad past though, I don’t care about that. You’ve had a bad childhood, so did Cora, Derek, Malia, Ethan and I so what that doesn’t divine us. I wanna know something about you, what makes Blake really Blake?”
“I like the way you think, the answer to your question however is a lot harder then I would’ve though. What makes me me? I really enjoy singing, I’m quite bad actually, but I enjoy it. I used to be a dancer, I hated it, but I was really good and it did give some sense of freedom like for a while I wasn’t the loser son of the abusive dad and drug addicted mom. Using my hands always gives my some sense of control, with my hands I get to make my own choices because I control my body. But I don’t use my hands in violent way, I would never. I actually paint, I really enjoy painting.” Blake grins, he never told anyone all this stuff and it feels good to really share who he is.
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“Malia you honestly can’t cook for shit!” Malia’s cooking skills really make Stiles want to cry!
“I don’t I prefer raw meat anyway.” Malia not bothered at, why would she wanna cook? Stay at home moms know how to cook, or at least all the stay at home moms in the TV shows Malia watched. The success full women however didn’t know how to cook, not really at least, because they are too busy being badasses and that’s Malia wants to be badass and independent. Then there’s also the part were Malia really does prefer raw meat. “I quit.”
“I’ll help!” Kira says exited, ever since Scott, Mason, Corey and her returned from their date she has been luring, waiting for Malia to quit so she can help in the kitchen.
“It really saddens me to know that the only reason you’re coming in here is to cook and not because you like me so much.” Stiles smiles, he enjoys cooking with Kira. She’s a really good cook and they teach each other a lot.
“You’ve finally given up?” Danny welcomes Malia when she walks into the living room.
“If we ever get stranded, I’m eating you first.” Malia’s psycho smile really freaks Danny out.
Not long after that Jackson’s car stops in front of the house and something’s off. “You guys hear the fifth heartbeat to right?”
Malia gets really excited when she sees who it is, Mason and Corey are just really confused because they’ve seen the woman before but just can’t quite place her, Scott is both excited and a bit confused why would she be in town? And Derek feels like he’s having a panic attack, his hands start shacking, everything gets a bit blurry and he just can’t breathe!
“Hey guys, long time no see” She smiles so sweetly and her voice still sounds as beautiful as he remembered it and it does but calm Derek down. It makes breathing even harder and he knows how to control panic attacks he used to get them all the time when family died, but nothings helping and it’s just getting worse.
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“We took Derek’s bus so we can all fit in the car.” Ethan informs his family as the walk towards the car.
The ride to the Hale House wasn’t as awkward as Ethan thought it would be. Carter and Cole talked a lot and asked a lot of questions. Ireland cried, twice. Alec and Arizona told the story about how they met, Scarlett told about her store and a boy she’s seeing and Jessica was just quiet but made some sassy remarks where needed.
When they enter the house almost everyone is in the living room, except for Kira and Stiles who are in the kitchen, Lydia and Parrish who haven’t arrived yet and Derek who Ethan guesses is upstairs.
“Braeden what are you doing here?” Derek has finally calmed down, it just took bit longer than it used to take.
“You really scared me there big guy.” Braeden says and squads down next to Derek who is sitting on the bathroom floor. Derek growls softly at Braeden, but it doesn’t scare her she know he’d never hurt her. “Look I know I hurt your feeling and that you want to hate me. But I also know you don’t hate me and that I really, really like you a lot and I want to give us another shot and this time I’m really in. No more running away when it gets to real, or we fight, I won’t even run away if we lose another baby Derek, I’m here for it.”
Seeing and hearing Braeden talk about the baby they lost really breaks Derek’s heart. He guesses that’s why he really got the panic attack, not because of her but because of what she reminds him of.