chapter forty two
"i love you!"

      "OKAY, EVELYNN, YOU CAN DO this."

      Lynn strongly exhaled a shaky, nervous breath as she swung a leg over her parker motorcycle. She untucked the helmet she had been wearing, placing it gently on the top of the fabric.

She glanced upwards towards the sky, wincing as she was surprised by the raindrops that had trickled down her face. Lynn didn't know that it was supposed to thunderstorm today, so she hadn't dressed properly.

Then again, how do you dress properly to see the man you so deeply care for when you found out he's actually alive and not dead at the bottom of a escalator?

Lynn scratched her neck anxiously as her eyes just stared intently at the building that Derek's apartment belonged to. She had yet to speak the man, only finding out from Aiden on their way back from the cancelled meet that Derek was alive.

Scott had texted him, but there was no reply, and so Lynn sat the entire bus ride home busy in thought. What she would say to him when they saw each other, what she would be feeling, etc.

"This is stupid," Lynn grumbled to herself, facepalming as she awkwardly clenched her eyelids shut. "Stop acting like a pussy, Evelynn."

"I thought I was the one who would have a concussion, not you."

Lynn jerked her head upwards from staring at the cement, and her pink lips fell slightly ajar as she saw the man standing a few feet in front of her. She practically jumped up at the easily recognizable voice, but she couldn't help but allow a little gasp to escape her lips.

He was really alive, Derek Hale was standing right in front of her — perfectly fine and breathing.

"Derek," Lynn stated, a sort of breathlessness in her tone of voice, and even though her lips were still spread open, she couldn't muster out another word.

Derek skipped the small amount of space between the two of them by crashing his lips onto Lynn's — his warm hands stretched across her cheeks as she immediately kissed him back. Her palms went to his chest to balance out, and Derek's thumb softly caressed her soft cheek.

But almost immediately as the kiss began, Lynn suddenly jerked her body backwards from the strongly muscled man. A slightly shocked expression crossed Derek's face, and just as soon as he peeled open his mouth to surely question what was wrong — he was cruelly interrupted.

By Lynn colliding her palm with Derek's cheek.

Derek adjusted his jaw as the clap echoed from how harshly Lynn had smacked him clean across his cheek — and he switched over to her with raised eyebrows and an almost amused expression. "Wasn't expecting that, to be honest."

"I hate you!" Lynn exclaimed, a sudden burning feeling aching in her heart — no matter how hard she was trying to just enjoy the moment, the relief of knowing Derek was still alive.

But she was beyond pissed.

By now, the rain had started to shift moreso into a heavy patter of rain compared to light sprinkle a few moments before. Lynn's dark brunette strands of hair were starting to stick to her skin, and both of the werewolves clothing began to grow soaked as well.

"Definitely wasn't expecting that," Derek repeated as he seemed abruptly offended by Lynn's outburst, but then his face softened up when he realized the emotion swelling in Lynn's eyes. "What's wrong?"

"I hate that feeling I had when I saw you go over the edge," Lynn continued, and she was thankful it was raining so hard by now — Derek couldn't tell if the tear that had just escaped her eye was rain or not. "I hate that feeling I had in my heart when I thought I was never going to see you again, that I was never going to touch you or kiss you o-or look into those stupid green eyes of yours!"

Lynn pushed Derek forward by placing her palms on his chest and he fell back a foot or so, however, he didn't seem to be fighting against her. He allowed her to do this, to ramble off all the emotions.

"And do you know what I hate most of all!?" Lynn shouted, aimlessly flicking her arms up into the air.

And somehow at the same time, a bolt of lightning struck throughout the growing dark and gloomy sky. Thunder was quick to follow it, but neither of the two flinched at the echoing sound.

"I hate that I-I...I love you!"

      Derek's face straightened out at the words that had rambled right off Lynn's tongue — and Lynn twisted with a mix of shock and awkwardness as she had realized what she had just confessed. Her chest was heaving up and down as if she was going o have a heart attack, but even though a part of her was flustered, she knew it was about damn time she finally got her feelings off her chest.

      "You...love me?" Derek questioned, his eyebrows twitching ever so slightly as he tilted his head at her, gently.

      "I love you, Derek," Lynn confirmed, swallowing all that anxiety as she searched Derek's face for a tell — a tell if he was going to say the same thing back to her. "You don't...god, don't even listen to my dumbass I—"

      Lynn didn't even have a split moment to finish her rambling from spilling all of her deepest and darkest feelings as Derek launched himself forward. Their lips interlocked within in a second, moving in a rhythmic motion. However, usually there was lust that had influenced all the kisses that had had so far — but this time was different.

      It was passionate, it was truly like they were in love — in love with every bit of the other, and nothing else seemed to consume them more.

      Lynn wrapped her slim arms over Derek's shoulders as he had one hand strongly gripped onto her hip, and the other was holding her cheek.

      Neither of the two minded their socking wet clothes sticking to one another, nor the plastering of the heavy rain that was only seemingly blossoming.

      Lynn felt breathless as Derek finally peeled his lips away from hers, and she wanted to almost whimper at the sudden loss of his touch. And she curiously glanced up to the taller man, a soft expression covering her blue eyes.

      Derek only smiled as he stared right back down at the girl, "And I love you, Evelynn Kennedy."

a/n:

WHAT THE FUCK

forty two chapters later and it has finally happened, the two closed off and angry werewolves finally confessed their feelings. (i kinda don't like this chapter, maybe i'll edit it later, idk)

HOW ARE WE FEELING????