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Chapter 40:

--Emily's POV:

So far my plans on how to escape tonight were not working out how I wanted them to. Sean was extremely persistent and quite frankly was beginning to get annoying. I had tested his boundaries at least three times throughout the day and he had caught me every time but hopefully didn't think anything of it. He just thought he hadn't made the rules clear enough so he would explain them to me and then I would smile sweetly and apologize. I have to say, I was a pretty good actor but had still yet to find a way out tonight.

It didn't help that mom was going to be home in thirty minuets and as soon as Stiles had showed up, I pretty much gave up on all hope of escaping. This wasn't going to stop me though for the rest of the week. Turns out Stiles' dad had decided it wasn't safe for everyone to be out and they needed to do more investigations at the school so he decided to cancel school for the rest of the week. It only gave me today, Thursday, Friday, and the weekend to sneak out but that would be plenty of time.

Nothing seemed to be going right today, including the escape plans. Scott had been missing and only arrived about an hour after Stiles. He wouldn't tell anyone where he had went and he was acting extremely weird. He wouldn't say anything and it was getting annoying. All he wanted to do was sit in his room all day.

I had tried multiple times to speak with him but had no luck. It was just best to let him talk when he wanted to talk right now.

After a while, mom was home and was already starting dinner, which she rarely does. The only reason she got the night off tonight was because of what happened to me. It was nice having everyone home for dinner though. I helped mom make lasagna and garlic bread and within minuets Scott and Stiles were both sitting at the kitchen table drooling. It was both of their favorite meals. The sweet aroma of dinner filled the entire home. Mom and I both sat down after everything was on the table and smiled at the two. Scott was still silent but Stiles was a different story.

"Than you both!" He yelped as he served himself some lasagna.

It wasn't long before almost all of the lasagna was gone and there was only about one serving left. Both the boys and my mom were completely stuffed and talking about something but I wasn't listening. My mind was wandering off to Derek as I stared out the window.

"Earth to Em!" Stiles voice broke through my thoughts and I sighed looking over at him.

"Do you want the rest?" He said gesturing towards the little bit of lasagna left.

I looked at him wide eyed. "I thought you were full?"

He had eaten more than any of us.

That's when my phone vibrated in my lap. Looking down quickly I saw that it was Sean seeing if I was still ok. He had been outside all day patrolling and doing his thing so that's when an idea popped into my head. I quickly told him no, I wasn't ok and slapped my phone shut, smirking.

"Why are you smiling like that? You look like an evil mastermind." Stiles said while reaching for the rest of the lasagna.

"No! I want that!" I said pointing towards the lasagna. "Mom can you put that on a plate please."

A loud banging on the front door interrupted me. Sean.

"What the hell! Who is that?" Stiles asked.

"Sean. I told him I was in trouble."

"What? Em! He is your bodyguard, not a play toy! This isn't some kind of joke young lady!" Mom screamed while passing me the plate with the rest of the lasagna on it.

"Chill, all of you." I laughed as I walked over to the front door nonchalantly.

I could hear Sean on the other side of the door and before he could knock down the door I swung it open with a rather large grin on my face.

"Em! What's wrong?" He said trying to push past me but stopping when he saw I was perfectly fine. I couldn't help but smile even bigger when he realized what I had done.

"I know you wouldn't have come in and eaten if I didn't do that." I said in a matter of fact tone as I pushed the plate of lasagna into his hands and ushered him in.

He stood in the entryway of our house with a half shocked, half amused look on his face.

"Come on!" I said beginning to walk towards the kitchen to join the others.

"That wasn't funny." He mumbled.

Mom looked pissed at my little stunt and kept on apologizing to him the whole time he ate.

"You are going to be a handful aren't you?" Sean muttered to me as the others talked amongst themselves.

I smiled innocently and shook my head.

"Just don't do it again please. Next time just ask me."

After Sean had finished eating, they all sat talking about more random things but I still wasn't interested in their conversation and neither was Scott. In fact, Scott announced he was going to his room a few seconds later. Mom gave me a look questioning what was wrong with him but I just shrugged my shoulders and we left it at that for now.

It was getting pretty late and I needed to start getting ready for bed considering I wouldn't be sneaking out anytime tonight. Plus, I had put Sean through enough already in the last hour.

I said goodbye and goodnight to everyone downstairs and walked Stiles out so he could go home. Mom and Sean where still sitting at the kitchen table when I began to make my way up the stairs, to my room.

As soon as I was alone, I felt the horrible urge to just cry again. Before, when I was with people all day, I was able to hide it but now that I was finally alone, I felt like absolute crap.

It didn't take long for me to get ready for bed, and before I knew it, I was in my soft bed. I wrapped my sheets tightly around me, hoping it would give me some comfort but it didn't. My eyes closed and all I could think about was Derek. He couldn't be the killer. It just wasn't possible in my mind.

As I lay there, I did something extremely drastic. Picking my phone up, I found Derek's name and began to type. It wasn't a long message but it was to the point.

It read, 'Derek, please tell me that none of this is true. I don't believe anything anyone's telling me but I need to hear it from you. I need to see you.'

I paused for a second debating if I should add the next part. Without thinking I typed the last three words and shut my phone quickly.

'I miss you. -Em'

I cursed myself for writing I miss you, but it was the truth. I wanted nothing more to be with him right now. I wanted to forget this horrible mess and just pretend it never happened.

Before long, my eyelids became heavy and I began to drift in and out of consciousness. My dreams went to the only person that I needed right now. I needed Derek.

*****

The next few days had gone by so slow without any news about Derek. It was already Friday and still he had not answered my text. I had even tried calling him once, but not to my surprise, he didn't answer. I hadn't been able to sneak out either to find him and I was paying the consequences. Each day that passed, the pain of losing him got worse and worse.

It turns out the reason why Scott was being so antisocial wad because Allison had broken up with him. He was crushed, so as you can guess, the mood around my house wasn't the best.

I sighed and rolled over in bed and untangled myself from my bed sheets. The sun was so bright and was shining through my bedroom window. I smiled. It had already been decided the moment I woke up, that today was the day. I was going to find Derek today.

I waited until late afternoon to change into my running clothes. Scott was out with Stiles and my mom was at work, leaving only Sean to get passed. I groaned just thinking about it.

I took a deep breath as I looked through my window at the car sitting in our driveway, with Sean still in it. If I was going to do this, I needed to do it now.

I pulled at my window, slowly wedging it open trying to not make as much noise as possible. Swinging my leg over, I was able to plan my jump accordingly. Problem was, I'm such a spaz. Before I knew what had happened I was face down in the dirty below my window.

"Ow." I mumbled hoisting myself up with my arms.

Footstep moving towards me had my whole body stiffen but before I could hide they were already next to me.

"Em! What the hell do you think your doing?"

I groaned inwardly, Sean had caught me. I looked at him with a shameful glance and I could feel the tears forming on the sides of my eyes. I had failed. I want to scream at Sean but it wasn't his fault. I wanted to scream that all I was trying to do was find Derek and get answers from him. That Sean had crushed my hopes of every finding the truth. I wouldn't dare say any of that though because it wasn't true. I was just being over emotional and thinking way to drastically.

Sean looked at me concerned as he grabbed my upper arm to help me up.

"What's wrong?" He asked with concern, moving closer to me.

"Nothing, I just wanted to go for a run alone." It wasn't exactly a lie.

By the look on his face he didn't believe me and knew there was a bigger reason, but thankfully he dismissed it.

"Well if you wanted to go for a run that bad, why didn't you ask? You can't go alone, but I would be happy to go on a run with you." He said, trying to cheer me up.

"Sure, that's fine." I said with a slight smile looking up at him.

"Ok, well come inside with me so I can change. I don't want you trying to run away on me again." He chuckled.

I laughed, knowing how all to real that was.

It didn't take long for Sean to change. He came out wearing a tighter, grey work out t-shirt and black running shorts. All of it fit him very nicely as his shirt fit in all the right places. I laughed and looked down at my workout clothes as he looked at me with a confused expression.

"I just noticed that we match." I said pointing towards my grey tank top and my short, black, running shorts.

He chuckled and walked past me but I couldn't help but notice something on his waistband. Before I could ask he must of noticed me looking at him funny.

"Its my gun and badge." He said, pulling up his shirt slightly, revealing the two objects.

Without letting me know, he was already half way out of the house waiting for me to catch up. I easily caught up to him before we both left the house.

"So your not going to get in trouble for being out of uniform, are you?" I asked as we walked along the sidewalk to the forest. It was chilly outside, but nothing unbearable. Tonight was going to be a different story, it was supposed to freeze over.

"If the Sheriff sees me, yes. But, if we avoid him, I'm in the clear."

"Do all body guards break the rules like you?" I teased.

He chuckled and scratched the back of his head with one of his hands.

"Probably not. I have special privileges so I don't get in as much trouble as I should." He boasted.

"And, whys that?" I asked playing along with his little act.

"I am very good at what I do." He said in a flat tone.

When I tuned my head to look at him, I was confused as he had a very hard look planted in his face. He was so serious I felt like I needed to lighten the mood but thankfully the entry to the forest was coming up.

As we entered the forest he turned and looked at me concerned.

"What?" I asked confused.

"Do you run here all the time by yourself?"

"Yeah. It my kind of getaway I guess." I said, knowing he wasn't going to like my answer.

He hummed his disapproval and turned towards the forest again.

"Ready?" He asked, watching the forest carefully.

"Yup!" I said before sprinting down the forest, leaving Sean in the dust.

We ran for about two hours and it was so relaxing and relieving. It was what I really needed right now and I felt a lot better now as we stopped to take a break in the middle of the forest.

I plopped down on a large rock and took a deep breath, trying to catch my breath. Sean chuckled in front of me. I looked up at him and scowled. He wasn't even sweating and was completely relaxed.

"Do you run a lot?" I asked in-between breaths.

"Yeah. You obviously haven't been lately." He laughed, making fun of me.

"Shut up." I mumbled as I looked past him, into the trees. I could feel my heart clench thinking about where we were. This spot wasn't far from where Derek and I would always end up when we would come to the forest.

Sean must have noticed my sudden change of attitude and sat down next to me.

"You miss him." Sean whispered with his face completely frozen.

I looked at him in shock and my jaw dropped. I should of known that Sean knew about Derek and I, considering he was supposed to be protecting me from him. Mr. Stilinski must have told him everything. I sighed, looking down at my hands in my lap.

"Is it that obvious?" I asked.

"Not really. I can just tell. He meant a lot to you didn't he?"

I was shocked by the conversation we were having. I was almost scared to answer him incase he was up to something that could get Derek into more trouble.

I nodded my head and continued staring down at my lap. Sean sighed next to me.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to make you upset." He said with sincerity in his voice.

"No it's ok." I replied, "We should probably get going back."

"I agree. We don't want to be out here when it's dark."

We both stood and awkwardly started making our way out of the forest. It took a while to get home and Sean and I had not said a single word since.

Sean walked me to the door and looking at me with a worried expression on his face.

"I'm sorry." I mumbled. I felt bad for ruining our run.

"No! Don't be sorry at all. It's my fault. I shouldn't have brought it up." He said.

I looked up at Sean and smiled.

"Thank you." I said while opening the front door.

"No problem. If you need anything just let me know. Is Scott going to be home tonight?"

I shrugged and sighed at the same time.

"No idea. Probably not."

Sean laughed. "Well that leaves just you. If you need me to come in at anytime or you get nervous, let me know."

My smile grew, "Thanks Sean. See you tomorrow. Let me know if you get hungry or something! Its supposed to get really cold tonight so let me know if you want to come in."

Sean chuckled, rolling his eyes, and pushed me inside. "Go. I'm not a child and I can take care of myself but thank you."

I couldn't help but laugh as he pushed me inside my home.

Before I closed the door I looked back at him.

"Good night!" I yelled as he walked away.

"Night Em. Lock the door." He said flashing me another one of his warm smiles before getting to his car.

I shut the door behind me and sighed. Scanning around the entryway I took a deep breath. That alone feeling began to consume me and I could feel my heart aching for someone. Someone, being Derek.

Maybe getting caught today was a sign though. The way Sean had brought about Derek was almost like he used to know him and knew what kind of person he was. It made me nervous, knowing how Sean acted when he brought up Derek. I trusted Sean, so seeing that even he didn't trust Derek made me uneasy. But, in the end I trusted Derek more then Sean. Don't get me wrong; I still wanted to hear it from Derek myself. It felt like my heart was being torn apart between trusting Derek and being frightened of him.

Would Derek hurt me though? I hated my self for even having the thought pass my mind. I tried to relax as I fixed myself some dinner and stood in the kitchen to finish eating. Tonight was going to be a long night alone.

I jumped when I saw a figure walk in front of the kitchen window but soon realized it was just Sean making his rounds.

Taking a shaky breath I jumped again when my phone began ringing.

"Gez, Em. Keep it together." I muttered to myself noticing how jumpy I was.

The loud ringing of my phone echoed through my silent house. My breath caught in my throat when I saw who was calling and I could feel my body grow cold.

Derek.