Chapter 28

When I wake up the next morning, Derek was already awake and was no longer beside me.

"Yeah, yeah. No problem." I hear Derek say as he walks into my room. "Who you talking too?" I ask whilst sitting up properly. "Your dad. He's heading out to work now. Wanted to make sure you got up." Derek says and I nod.

He hands me a coffee and then sits beside me. "How you feeling?" He asks and I nod. "I'm okay." I say sipping on my coffee.

We had some breakfast before we had a shower and got ready.

"So what's your plans for today?" I ask whilst drying my hair. "Following Scott." Derek says and I furrow my eyebrows. "They were looking at Scott when the sun came up, they're going after him." He says and I nod.

"Are you going to work?" Derek asks and I nod. "Most probably." I say and he nods.

"I'll come by later and get some coffee quickly." Derek says and I nod. "Okay sure, I'd like that." I say before kissing his cheek.

I get dressed into a blue denim skirt and a white chunky knit sweatshirt which I slightly tuck into my skirt and then put a belt on.

After doing my makeup, I make my bed and put on my shoes. It was quite late into the day once I was ready.

"Hey so do you want me to drop you to your car?" I ask before sorting my room out. "Yeah sure." Derek says and I head downstairs to the kitchen and grab my car keys.

I drive Derek to the loft and tell him I'll see him later. I head straight for the coffee shop to help out in the store today.

"Hey." I say walking in and greeting the staff there today.

I put on an apron immediately and tie my hair back before helping out today.

****

A continuous phone ringing was doing my head in. I accidentally left my phone in my car and now the store phone hasn't stopped blowing up.

"Someone answer that phone!" I call whilst taking someone's order. Stephanie rushes over to the phone and immediately keeps glancing at me whilst I make some latte's.

"Hey, um... you should take this." Stephanie says and I look at her confused. "Who is it?" I ask whilst getting some mugs.

"The hospital." She says and my eyes immediately widen. Who's dying? "I'll take over for you." Steph says before handing me the phone.

"Hello..." I say worrying as I answer the phone. "Hey Nia, it's me Melissa. I'm sorry to call you at work, but it's Stiles. He's here. Nothing bad happened before you start to worry. He just he's exhausted and I thought you'd want to know. You don't have to come and see him if you're busy." Melissa says and I nod.

"I'll come. I'll be there. I uh... what room is he in?" I ask and she sighs. "When you get here, I'll show you." Melissa says and I nod.

I put the phone down and immediately take my apron off. "I need to go." I say to Stephanie and she nods. "Yeah, go." She says and I nod. "On the way, I'll call some people in to help." I say and she nods before smiling at me sympathetically.

When I get in the car, I drive to the hospital whilst calling some staff to go in and help Stephanie out.

I get to the hospital and rush inside. I get inside and instantly find Melissa at a desk. She smiles at me and stands up before leading me to a room.

I head inside to see Stiles fast asleep in a bed. I thank Melissa before taking a seat beside Stiles. She leaves us alone as I grasp Stiles' hand in my own.

I don't know whats going on with Stiles. It's evident he isn't sleeping and when he does he has nightmares. It kind of reminds me of when mom was still here. Before she was hospitalized, this is exactly how she would act.

I would wake up to the sounds of her screaming and dad comforting her. There was one moment that completely scarred me for life.

It's late. I haven't long gotten off of the phone with Logan. I had just gotten comfortable in bed when I heard the worst screaming possible. It's mom

Dad isn't here tonight, he's got a night shift. What am I supposed to do?

I climb out of bed and head straight to my parent's room. I linger by the door just seeing her scream in bed was enough for me.

I head into her room and just try calling out "mom" a few times. She doesn't react but she continues to scream. "Mom please stop. You're gonna wake Stiles." I plead.

I head to her side and just hold her whilst she cries. I sigh and just hold her like I've watched dad do too many times.

I look up from mom to see Stiles just standing by the door with tears streaming down his face.

I lie mom down and let her fall back to sleep. When she was back to sleep I climb out of her bed and walk over to the  door. I take Stiles' hand and lead him back to his room.

I lie down beside Stiles in his bed as he cries. "Is mommy gonna die?" He asks and I sigh. "No Stiles." I say and kiss his forehead. "Everything is gonna be okay. Plus I'm always gonna be here for you. Always. And dad. Can't forget about dad. Mom. Mom is just sick at the moment." I say and he nods. Stiles leans into me and ends up crying himself to sleep.

And that's when I made the promise to my family. That I would always be there for them. I hated seeing Stiles cry. I hated  seeing mom the way she was so making this promise was the best way to go.

Oh my God!

Things start to add up in my head. Stiles is acting exactly the same way mom was. But mom had dementia. Dementia can't affect teens can it? I hope not.

I lean in closer to Stiles as I watch him sleep. He looks so peaceful.

My phone starts ringing and I immediately jump up to head outside to take the phone call.

"Hello?" I answer in a whisper. "Hey, where are you? I just popped in to get some coffee and you weren't there." Derek answers and I sigh. "Im at the hospital." I say looking into Stiles room where he was fast asleep.

"Is everything alright?" He asks and I sigh. "Yeah, I'm just making sure Stiles is okay. He's asleep. I just want to be with him, I want him to know it'll be okay." I say watching Stiles closely.

"I can swing by later if you want?" Derek asks and I sigh. "Nah, don't worry about it. You need to protect Scott. I'm just gonna be here with Stiles. Is it okay if we stay at my place tonight? I know we stayed there last night but--"

"Nah it's okay don't worry. Once I've finished up with Scott, I'll meet you at your place." Derek says and I nod. "Just remember to use the front door." I say and he nods. "Okay." He says before ending the phone.

I head back into Stiles room and sit down on the seat, just holding his hand.

****

"Nia." Stiles repeatedly calls as he shakes me. "I'm up. I'm up." I repeat before looking back at Stiles.

"What are you doing here?" Stiles asks and I scoff. "Well where else would you rather I be?" I ask whilst grabbing my phone to check the time.

"I asked Melissa not to tell you or dad." Stiles says and I laugh. "Stiles. I want to be here for you so don't be a pain in the ass. I love you, okay? I don't want you to be in hospital on your own ever. So don't be a dick. Get up." I say to Stiles and roll my eyes at myself.

"I need to find Melissa." Stiles says and I nod. "Okay, do you wanna split up?" I ask and he nods.

We head out of his room and we head two different ways to look for Melissa.

I finally find Melissa and she's covered in blood. "Oh god, are you okay?" I ask and she nods whilst being breathless.

Stiles and Scott finally find us and we head outside and Scott tells us all about what happened tonight.

"Well im glad to know im not possessed." I say rolling my eyes before heading to my car. "Yeah, it doesn't make sense why you were attacked though." Scott says and I shrug. "Maybe I look mysterious to other people." I say playfully beforr climbing into my car. "See you at home!" I shout to Stiles.

When I get home Derek was stood in the kitchen, talking with my dad. "Ah, this is perfect." Dad says and I look at Derek confused.

"We're having dinner together. Do you know where Stiles is?" Dad asks and I make my way over to the stove. "What are you cooking?" I asked confused as there was no food being cooked.

"Oh, we ordered." Dad says and I laugh. "Right." I say before pouring a glass of water.

****

When food came, we all sat around the table before eating.

"So how are you two getting along?" Dad asks looking between Derek and I. "Dad, you're acting as though we weren't friends before." I say and Dad looks solemnly at me. "Yeah well when we were trapped all you were doing was bitching about Derek." Dad says and I roll my eyes.

"How was work today?" I ask changing the subject. "It's work. Agent McCall is seriously on my case." He says and I roll my eyes. "Well atleast he's in the hospital now, a few days to your self." Stiles says and I nod.

"I hope he has to go back to where ever the hell he came from and they send someone else." I say and dad looks up at me. "That's not very nice." Dad says as if he doesn't agree with me. "Well he's a little bitch, so bite me." I say before taking a bite of my food.

"How do you out up with her?" Dad asks Derek. "He just glares at me, you know? Or growls. He's done that before." I say and Derek rolls his eyes.

"Im gonna be sick." Stiles says as I kiss Derek's cheek. "Good. The bathroom is down the hall." I say and Stiles rolls his eyes.

"Derek, you should growl at them." I say and Derek turns to me with a confused expression. "Why the hell would I do that?" He asks and I laugh. "Because it's funny. Think of all the pranks we could pull on them. We could literally just go and scare them. Bitch, we're gonna run this house." I say and Dad and Stiles exchange looks.

"You know what, I give you full permission to kidnap her." Dad says to Derek. "I'll pass." Derek says. "Don't pretend you don't love me." I say patting Derek's shoulder as he rolls his eyes.

I stand up and start to clean away the dishes from dinner. "Ni' don't worry about it. I'll do it." Dad calls from the table but I just ignore him and carry on cleaning up from dinner.

After cleaning up from dinner, we sit in the living room where me and Stiles gang up on dad and put friends on. Derek wasn't bothered about what we watched but just that we hurried up.

After a few episodes of Friends, me and Derek head up to my room.

"Still hate us Stilinski's?" I ask whilst getting into my pyjamas. "Oh yeah totally." He says and I  my eyes playfully. "Ass." I say whilst sitting on my bed.

"Oh." I say jumping up. I rush downstairs where it was already quiet and dark. I grab a bottle of wine and head back upstairs.

I sit down on my bed and get Derek to pop open the bottle of wine. "God." Derek says as I take a massive mouthful.

I hand him the bottle and he looks at me weirdly. I roll my eyes and take another mouthful. "Drink some." I say and he sighs before drinking some.

"You know werewolves can't get drunk right?" Derek asks and I roll my eyes. "Unbelievable." I say sighing. "You know, I thought being a werewolf was cool but like how do you like let go?" I ask before drinking some more wine.

"I eat people." He says seriously whilst I choke on some wine. "Are you serious?" I ask him and he chuckles. "Obviously not." He says before drinking some more wine.

After I get tipsy on wine and start laughing at basically everything Derek says (which is a bad sign considering he's not even that funny) I get into bed.

"Yeah no." I say sitting up after trying for 5 minutes to get comfortable. "I'm going to brush my teeth." I say and when I return to the room Derek was in some sweat pants, ready for bed.

"Wow." I say at his chest and he rolls his eyes. I copy him and take my pyjama top off. "What are you doing?" Derek asks as I stalk over to the bed.

I climb on top of him and immediately place a kiss on his lips. "If we do this, you better not argue with me tomorrow." Derek says and I scoff. "Well, have you done anything dickish?" I ask and he shakes his head no. "Then I won't." I say before kissing him and pulling his sweat pants off.