WITCHY WOMAN: FOUR

WITCHY WOMAN: FOUR

WITCHY WOMAN

Derek Hale x Stella McCall

Series summary: When Stella receives a call from her younger brother Scott asking for her help, she comes back to Beacon Hills and is met with memories from her past, specifically memories of Derek Hale.

(takes place in season 3)

Word Count: 2625

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INTRO ONE TWO THREE

FOUR

Stella arrived at the building looking up, silently telling herself how bad of an idea this was. Reluctantly, she got out of her vehicle, pushing her worry to the back of her mind, walked into the building, and made her way to the loft. Making her way to the door, she stopped and stared at it. But why wasn't she knocking? Maybe it was because her heart was beating so fast. Or maybe it was because of the overwhelming fear that Derek really did hate her for leaving. In the loft, Derek could hear her heartbeat. He walked over to the door, opening it, "Were you planning on knocking? Or were you just going to stand there?" He asks her.

"I was debating whether or not this was a good idea." She states. Derek lets her in with a sarcastic wave of his arm, she walks past him looking at the space he was living in, a bed in the corner, a leather couch, and a desk. "I can smell your magic," Derek tells her.

"I haven't really gotten the concealing spell down. All black furniture? Why am I not surprised," She stopped walking when she heard footsteps walking down the spiral staircase. Stella watched him as he descended and when his face was finally visible, she realized who it was, "Peter?" She asked incredulously.

"Huh, you know you're the first person who's greeted me without sounding disappointed." He told her, smirking. Stella looked at him, confused. 

Derek stepped forward and informed her of his colorful past. “Wait, so you killed him?” She asks Derek. 

He nods at this to which Peter says, “Slit my throat, can you believe it? My own nephew,”

Stella looks at both of them in shock, “Well yes, Peter, I can believe it after what you did! It’s your fault Scott’s in this mess!” she yells.

“Scott’s a big boy Stella. He can handle it,” Peter responds.

"What are you even doing here?" Derek finally asks her, changing the subject.

Not forgetting the conversation that just happened, she gave Peter one final glare, “Scott said you guys were going to discuss the plan at 5, but I wanted to talk to you before that." She answers, looking at Peter she continued, "Alone." 

"Oh, some alone time?" Peter said amused, "Well if it isn't high school all over again. I'll just leave you two." he said while walking out of the loft.

"I meant what are you doing in Beacon Hills?" Derek clarifies, watching Peter close the door.

“What? You don’t believe I came all this way to see you?” Derek looked at her expressionless, “okay, okay, Scott called me and said he needed help with an Alpha pack. I’ve been helping him ever since mom found out what he was,” she said holding up her hands. 

“You’re the one Scott’s always on the phone with? I always thought it was Deaton,” Derek told her.

“No, that was me. But I didn’t come here to tell you why I’m in Beacon Hills, I… I wanted to apologize,” Stella says, sighing, looking at her shoes. They had become a lot more interesting than Derek's chiseled face, that she may or may not have noticed. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry about Paige and for making you hate me for leaving, but I had to leave, would you at least let me explain to you why?" She asked, finally looking up. Derek nodded, she told him everything that happened with the coven, and how her father just used her. "I wanted to come back, I did, but he wouldn't let me, so I stayed until I had my magic under control. That’s the only way I could have left,”

Derek watched her as she waited for him to say something, "I've changed since high school, I'm not the same person you knew back then." He tells her.

"Then let me know you again, I want to help you." She informs him, taking a step closer to him. 

He takes a step back, "I don't know you either. We haven't seen each other since we were 16, Stella. But one thing I do know." He tells her, "I don't hate you. I never could."

She looks at the ground and then back to him, studying his face and noticing how much his features have changed. Now that they weren’t in the dim light of the vet clinic, she could actually see him. She gave him a small smile, looking at his emerald eyes, remembering when they first told each other their secrets.

Flashback

Beacon Hills Preserve, it was quiet and secluded, and the place they always went to when they wanted to be alone. They had been dating for a while, and they both wanted to tell each other their secrets finally. Stella sat on a rock while Derek sat in front of it so she could wrap her arms around him. "I'm gonna tell you something okay? But you can't freak out." She whispered in his ear. 

He turned and looked at her, "Well, what I'm gonna tell you might actually freak you out." 

They looked at each other, wondering the same thing. How will the other react? "Okay um, how about this?" Stella suggested, "At the same time?" It was dumb, but she was hoping it would make it easier. 

"Okay, at the same time." Derek agreed, "On three. One, two, three. I'm a werewolf."

"I'm a witch." They looked at each other, their expressions changed quickly, first, it was scared, and then it was confused, and finally, it was relief. In a way, they both knew how each other felt. Stella stood up from the rock, wrapping her arms around his neck while he wrapped his arms around her waist, resting their foreheads against each other. "God, I was so scared to tell you that," she finally said, causing them to chuckle.

They pulled away, looking at each other. Derek leaned in and kissed her forehead, “I love you, Stel.”

“I love you too, Derek.”

 "Do you remember when we told each other? On the preserve?" Stella asked him, coming out of her trance.

Derek nodded telling her, "Yeah, I remember."

"You know that was the moment I knew I could trust you with anything." She said, taking another step forward, testing the waters. "I still trust you Derek, even if you've changed." Stella insisted.

This time he stayed where he was, looking up at the door watching it open. It was 5:00; it was time to discuss the plan.

They all gathered around a desk while Peter sat on the spiral staircase. Stiles pulled out the building plans, blueprints, and articles that he and Scott had found. "See this?" He said, pointing at a spot on the plans, "This is how they got in. It's a rooftop air conditioning vent. It leads down inside into the wall of the vault, which is here." He uses his red sharpie to circle where the vault was. "One of the robbers was lowered into this shaft." Pointing at it he continues, "Now, that space is so small, it took him about 12 hours to drill into that wall, which is stone by the way. Then throughout the rest of the night, they siphoned the cash up to the guys back on the roof through that one little shaft in the wall."

"Can we fit in there?" Scott asked, looking at Stiles.

"Yes, we can, but very, very barely." He informed them. "And they also patched the wall, obviously, so we're gonna need a drill of some kind. I'm thinking maybe a diamond bit-"

He's cut off by Derek telling him, "Look, forget the drill."

"Sorry?" Stiles says.

"If I go in first, how much space do I have?" He asks him.

"What are you gonna do Derek? You gonna punch through the wall?" Stiles asks him.

"Yes, I'm gonna punch through the wall." He answers as if it was the most obvious thing in the entire world. 

Stiles turns to him, "Okay big guy, let's see it, let's see that fist. Big, old fist. Make it, come on." He urges Derek. "Get it out there, don't be scared." Derek lifts his fist annoyed. Stiles continues his comments, "Big, bad wolf. Yeah, look at that. Okay, see this?" He asks, grabbing Derek's fist and putting his hand in front of it, "That's maybe 3 inches of room to gather enough force to punch through solid co-" Derek punches Stiles' hand causing him to stumble backward holding his hand, "Ah, he could do it." Stiles confirms in pain.

"I'll get through the wall," Derek says. Stella stifles her giggles as Stiles continues holding his hand. "Who's following me down?" Derek asks, looking at the remaining three.

"Don't look at me." Peter tells him, "I'm not up to fighting speed yet, and honestly, with Isaac out of commission, you're not looking at very good odds for yourself." 

"So I'm just supposed to let them die?" Derek asks angrily.

"One of them is already dead." He reminds him. 

"We don't know that," Derek says leaning against the desk with his arms flexing. If this wasn’t a sensitive time Stella would’ve started drooling at the sight of Derek clenching his teeth, making his jawline more prominent. (not stella forgetting she’s in a room full of smell sensitive werewolves)

"Do I have to remind you what we're up against here? A pack of Alphas. All of them killers. And if that's not enough to scare your testicles back into your stomach, try to remember that two of them combine bodies to form one giant Alpha. I'm sure Erica and Boyd were sweet kids. They’re gonna be missed." He says, looking away from the group.

"Could someone kill him again, please?" Stiles asks sarcastically. Pulling Stella out of her inappropriate daze.

Peter looks up, glaring at Stiles and says, "Derek? Seriously? Not worth the risk." He crosses his arms.

"And what about you?" Derek asks Stella.

"Yeah, if you want me to come-" Stiles answers.

"Not you," Derek says, annoyed.

"Maybe I should stay here and help Stiles and Peter. You're still wary about me. You shouldn't be worrying about that while you're in there. I'll stay." Stella says, looking at him.

"And you?" He asks Scott

"I don't know about Erica, but if Boyd's still alive, we have to do something. We have to try." Scott says pausing.

"But?" Derek says, sensing another part of his sentence.

"Who's the other girl? The one locked in there with Boyd?" Scott asks. 

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Scott and Derek left for the bank while Stiles, Peter, and Stella stayed in the loft looking at the plans. Stiles walked towards the window biting his nails and watching the raindrops pour off the windows. "I can't take waiting around like this, you know? It's nerve-racking. My nerves are racked, they're severely racked!" 

"I could beat you unconscious and wake you when it's over," Peter suggests calmly, sitting on the black leather couch.

"Wow, someone really does need to kill you again," Stella says standing at the desk still.

Peter looks at her glaring, "You know I used to be your favorite person to come to about Derek, and after one night of getting to know me again you've already decided I'm a psychotic nut job?"

"I'm not wrong, am I?" Stella counters smiling at him.

Stiles turns to them, "You think Erica's really dead?" He looks up from the ground nervously, Stella looks at him and gives him a comforting smile.

"You think I really care?" Peter answers.

Stiles starts pacing, thinking out loud, "I just-I don't understand the bank, though, okay? Like why wouldn't they chain them up in some underground lair or something? They're an Alpha pack, right? So shouldn't they have a lair?"

"They're werewolves, not fictional villains Stiles, does it look like Derek lives in a lair?" Stella says, lightly chuckling at his question. 

"Wait a sec, wait a sec." Stiles continues his spew, walking around the loft examining it, "Maybe they're living there. You know? Like, maybe the bank vault reminds them of their little wolf dens."

"Wolf dens?" Stella asks, even more amused than before.

"Yeah, wolf dens," Stiles remarks, completely serious. "Where do you live?" He asks Peter.

"In an underground network of caves hidden deep in the woods," Peter answers sarcastically, lifting his head to look at Stiles.

"Woah, really?" He asks, completely amazed. 

"No, you idiot, I have an apartment downtown," Peter says, laying his head back down.

"Okay, fine, but still, that just proves that there's something up with the bank." Stiles says, walking towards them, "And why wait around for the full moon, huh? Why not just kill them whenever they wanted to?"

"Maybe they think it's poetic." Peter proposes.

"Wait, Stiles, what are the walls made of," Stella asks looking down at the plans and then to Peter who looked at her questioningly.

"Uh, I don't know, like, wood and brick, or-" Stiles pointed at the loft’s ceiling.

"No, the vault." Stella says walking over to the plans, "The vault, the walls, what are they made out of?" Peter and Stiles followed her to help look at the plans.

 "It doesn't say, Stiles where it would say materials, like the type of stone," Peter asked, looking at him as he reached into his backpack.

"Hang on, here." He says pulling a 3-inch thick packet out.

Looking through the papers, they finally found it. "There, that's it. Hecatolite. Is that awful? That sounds awful." Stiles asks them

"Get them on the phone. Call them. Now!" Peter shouts. 

Stella pulls her phone out to call Scott, Stiles asking, "Okay, why?"

"Because Boyd and that girl aren't gonna kill each other, they're gonna kill Derek and Scott," Peter tells them.

Stella calls Scott, quickly he answers, "Stella, now's not the best time."

"Scott! No, listen to me, you have to get out of there, the walls of the vault are made of hecatolite, it's a mineral that scatters the moonlight." She tells him.

"What does that mean?" He asks her.

"It keeps the moonlight out. They haven't felt the full moon in months." She says.

"Think of it like the gladiators in the Roman Colosseum," Peter chimes in, "they used to starve the lions for three days, making them more vicious, more out of control. Deucalion has kept them from shifting for three full moons, diminishing their tolerance to it."

"Scott, they're gonna be stronger!" Stiles yells.

"More savage, more bloodthirsty," Peter adds, "Scott, they're the lions, they're the starved lions, and you and Derek just stepped into the colosseum."

"Scott? Scott!" Stella yells. They hear growls over the phone and the line disconnects. She looks up at Peter and Stiles worried out of her mind.

“How did you know?” Stiles asks Stella.

She looks up at him, surprised that something could break through the deafening sound of silence that had engulfed them. “The coven, we… We studied minerals and stones, mostly things we could derive moonlight from, to give us more power over the threat. We studied hecatolite briefly, once we realized it didn’t help us, we moved on.” she said, ashamed, but Stiles couldn’t see that. No, he couldn’t smell it radiating off of her, but Peter could, so he asked her, “Why do you say that with such shame?”

“The moon is a sacred thing; she gave me and all the witches in my bloodline their powers. I’m ashamed because we tried to exploit her, we were greedy trying to get more power than we were given.” Stella answers, lowering her head, “I’m glad we did it though, we were able to warn Scott and Derek.” 

A/N: hello everyone who has read this:) thank you for reading! Let me know if you have any comments or suggestions, i’m open to helpful criticism. Not sure if i needed to add any warnings, but let me know if i do so i can edit, also would you guys want to start reading longer chapters? Like should i do a full episode in one chapter, instead of a scene like how i’m kinda doing now? lemme know what you think :)

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WITCHY WOMAN: THREE

WITCHY WOMAN

Derek Hale x Stella McCall

Series summary: When Stella receives a call from her younger brother Scott asking for her help, she comes back to Beacon Hills and is met with memories from her past, specifically memories of Derek Hale.

(takes place in season 3)

Word Count: 1425

Let me know if you’d like to be added to the tag list, thank you for reading! <3 

SERIES MASTERLIST

INTRODUCTION ONE TWO

THREE

"You said when they captured you that they dragged you into a room and that there was a body in it." Stiles continued, "Erica, you said it was Erica."

“What? I don’t remember saying that,” Isaac responds.

Stella looked towards Derek angrily, “That’s because Derek decided this was taking too long and to just damn the consequence that you could go into shock.” She turned towards Isaac, “Your body put your other functions on hold so it could focus on your heart so it wouldn’t go into shock.” she explained to him. 

But Derek wasn’t about to back down, “What if we didn’t get another shot, huh? What then? We wouldn’t know where they were,”

Stella looked at him shocked, “I had it under control if you had just let me calm him down-”

“Well, it didn’t look like that was going to happen,” Derek cut her off. The two had angrily walked towards each other as they fought, glaring at each other. 

“Guys! Can we please focus on the fact that Isaac said Erica is dead!” Scott said getting the two out of their angry daze. 

"She's not dead," Derek responded, turning to walk away from Stella, who was still glaring at him. 

"Derek, he said, 'there's a dead body. It's Erica' doesn't exactly leave us much room for interpretation," Stiles said while pointing to Isaac.

Derek looked at Stiles and then to Isaac and finally to the table in front of him and asked, "Then who was in the vault with Boyd?"

"Someone else, obviously," Stiles said, sarcastically. 

"Maybe, it was the girl on the motorcycle," Scott suggested. "The one that saved you?" He looked at Isaac hoping for a good answer.

"No, she wasn't like us." He informed them, "And whoever was in the vault with Boyd was."

"Maybe that's how Erica died." Stiles piped in, "They, like, pit them against each other during the full moons and see which one survives. It's like werewolf Thunderdome." 

"Then we get them out tonight." Derek declares.

"Be smart about this Derek," Deaton tells him.

Stella studies Derek wondering what he's thinking, once she figures it out she tells him, "You can't just go storming in."

"If Isaac got in, then so can we." He insists.

"But he didn't get through a vault door, did he?" Deaton counters.

"We need a plan." Scott determines.

Derek looks at Scott, "How are we gonna come up with a plan to break into a bank vault, in less than 24 hours?" 

"Uh, I think someone already did." Stiles says looking at his phone, "Beacon Hills First National Bank closes its doors three months after vault robbery." He reads, "Doesn't say here how it was robbed, but it probably won't take long to find out."

"How long?" Derek asks him.

"It's the internet, Derek. Okay? Minutes." Stiles says slightly rolling his eyes. Stella studied Derek waiting for him to look at her and question her. Derek looked towards Isaac instead, mumbling something and walking out, Isaac on his heels and Stella closely behind. 

Stella reached for Derek's wrist, grabbing it and turning him around, "You're not even gonna say anything to me now? We haven’t seen each other in what 10 years and you have nothing else to say to me?” They looked at each other in the eyes, Derek could see anger and hurt in hers but Stella couldn’t quite figure out what his eyes were giving her. 

"What am I supposed to say?" Derek finally said, inching closer to her, he turned to Isaac throwing him his car keys, "Go get the car started." He stated firmly. He waited until he could hear Isaac in the car, "What do you want me to say, Stella? You left, you left when I needed you, Paige died and you left." 

Stella was shocked by his words, "No, you don't get to use that against me, Derek, I had to leave!" She pointed at him, continuing, "You didn't just lose your girlfriend Derek, I lost my best friend. I lost both of them." She swore she could see the tiniest bit of guilt in his eyes, "You know, I don't know what I expected when I saw you again, but it wasn't this." She stormed off, tears filling her eyes but not falling. And Derek stood there, watching her leave. 

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On the ride back to the loft, Isaac had so many questions he wanted to ask Derek, but he wasn't sure if he could. Derek smelling how anxious and confused he was told him, "You get one question."

"Alright." Isaac said thinking, "How do you know her?"

Derek sighed, thinking back to the first time he met her.

Flashback

Freshman year, a new school, a few new people, and the year Stella and Derek met. Derek was walking down the hallway of Beacon Hills High when he ran into someone, "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry, I wasn't looking where-" the person began, and Derek looked at them and was met with beautiful hazel eyes.   He looked at her and smiled, "Oh uh, that's alright, um I'm Derek-Derek Hale." He told her reaching out his hand.   "Stella Daniels." She said, shaking his hand smiling.

Coming out of the flashback, Derek answered Isaac's question, "We met in high school, we were friends, good friends." 

Isaac looked at him, "So how did you not know she was Scott's sister? Did you not know her last name or something?" 

"I knew her last name, idiot." Derek said irritated, "It just wasn't McCall, it was Daniels, it was her father's last name."

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On the other side of town, Stella arrived at the hospital to talk with her mom. "Are you sure it's okay if I stay at the house?" 

Melissa looked up from the chart she was holding, "Sweetheart you're my daughter I'm not gonna let sleep in a hotel bed when you have a perfectly good one at the house." Stella smiled at her mom, "Thank you." 

Her mom gave her a hug and a kiss on the cheek, "Alright I gotta get back to work, I'll see you at home."

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At the Stilinski residence, Scott and Stiles searched for a way to get into the bank but ended up falling asleep. The next morning Stiles's dad, Sheriff Stilinski, came into his room to wake them up and let them know they needed to get to school. "Dad!" Stiles shouted, stopping his father, "Heather?" He questioned.

Shaking his head he told his son, "No, nothing yet." And started walking out of the house. 

Stiles got up sighing, "Ten hours of nothing." 

"We're gonna find something," Scott told him.

"Finding something doesn't make Erica any less dead or Boyd any less about-to-be-dead."

"Well, we still have time," Scott said, trying to give him some hope.

"Is this whole, like, 'remain optimistic in the face of complete and utter disaster' thing a part of the 'be a better Scott McCall' program?" He asked, blinking at his best friend.

"Uh, not if it doesn't work."

Sighing Stiles told him, "No, it works." Looking at one of the articles in his hand he realized something. "Oh, Dad! Dad?" He shouted hoping he hadn't left for work yet. Running after him he handed the article to Scott to show him what he found: A picture of his dad arresting the bank robbers.

Stiles drove him and Scott to school, jumping out of the Jeep, Scott reads a message from his phone, "Alright, so we meet at Derek's at 5:00 to go over the plan, and then we don't get started until dark." 

Putting his backpack on Stiles asks him, "Okay, what do we do till then?"

"What right now? We've got English, but I gotta make a phone call first."

"To who?" Stiles questions.

"Stella, I'm sure Derek didn't tell her about the plan so now I've got to." He says pulling out his phone as Stiles walks into the school. He scrolls down his contact list and finds her name, tapping it, he calls her number. 

"Hey, what's up?" Stella answers.

"We're meeting at Derek's place at 5:00 to go over the plan." Scott lets her know.

"Okay, where does Derek live?" She asks.

Scott silently remembering she hasn't been around telling her, "I'll text you his address I gotta go, bye." 

Hanging up the phone Stella looks down at the address Scott sent her, thinking to herself she decides to go over there now, she wanted to talk to him, alone.

A/N: ooo the ✨tension✨ again thank you for reading lots of love <3 

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I'm really curious to see if Stella yells at Derek for not listing to her. Like if she goes into protective mood and freaks out on him for yelling at Isaac while he was under. I'm also interested to see how everyone reacts when they find out she is an actual witch! Can't wait for the next part!!

I’m glad you’re enjoying it!! :) and I guess you’ll just have to wait and see 😉❤️