Stiles gulped and began to sweat as Derek came charging at him.

'O my god not even a second into training and he's going to kill me.'

As Stiles stared down Derek, he noticed something.

'He's not moving as fast as he normally would, is he taking it easy on me?'

Stiles saw the fist aiming for his right cheek in the form of an uppercut and he back up fast enough to avoid getting hit, however his victory was short lived as Derek threw a left punch aiming for his stomach in the form of a hook.

Stiles once again succeeded in backing up, only to be rewarded with a rough tree scarping his back.

'Why my back is always injured when it comes to Derek is a mystery I'll never solve but come on my back is always hurt when Derek is around.'

Derek stared Stiles down for a minute before speaking.

"Your evasive skills need work; I'm not even using half my strength and your barley dodging me." Derek knew that Stiles would need work, it's not every day a teenager actually practices dodging attacks and well fighting in general but still it would be helpful if Stiles had some skills.

"My evasive skills need work?! You try dodging a werewolf who can kill you without even breaking a sweat. I'm human and a few months ago I was living a normal life, so excuse me for not getting to fights and learning how to dodge and be more nimble. Also a warning would be nice next time you try and take my head off."

As much as Derek wanted to tell Stiles he was right, he was Derek and Derek doesn't give complements to often or encouraging words.

"Do you think the enemy is going to give you a change to catch your breath or even see them coming? What you think they will just walk up to you and say "Hey you over there, put your guard up I'm coming to fight you." NO people are ruthless and monsters are no different, if they see a chance to attack, they take it with no hesitation. So today I'm going to help you learn how to evade and hopefully find a way for you to use your powers whenever you want. Most mages like yourself use an emotion to conjure up their powers, just like wolves they need an anchor to control their powers."

Derek was trying to get Stiles to see a simple point, no one is going to cut you slack because you're a human and no one is going to wait for you to be ready before they fight you.

Stiles saw the point very clearly, but that didn't mean he had to agree with it, but he did recognize that Derek was in fact right and that made him clear his mind.

'Ok Derek is right, and I guess it couldn't hurt to have more skills besides controlling paper, I mean I'm not exactly going to be able to fight long distance all the time.'

Stiles looked at Derek with determination in his eyes, he had a spark in them that seemed to signal he was ready, he also put his hands up in front of his, in a defense style, it was a great thing his dad was the Sherriff because those defense classes his dad made him take were starting to flow back into him.

Derek looked Stiles over and saw the spark, he saw his square his feet, put his hands in front of him with his palms showing and his fingers slightly curled as if holding a ball, a trait for defense and blocking attacks that if blocked correctly could take someone down and he saw that the tension that was once in Stiles, now seemed to fade away.

It was like he was staring at an entirely new person and not only did Derek notice but so did everyone else and they all stopped training to watch.

Derek knew he was ready to begin and without any warning he once again charged after Stiles this time using his full speed just to see how different the outcome would be.

Derek moved so fast and come behind Stiles and gave him a light tap on his head, Stiles had turned around before the tap came and tried to block it but was too slow.

'Well at least the hit didn't hurt and I knew he was behind me before he struck me, I'm going to have to thank my dad because if it wasn't for him, I doubt I would have seen that coming.'

Stiles knew that this was going to be a long day, he just hoped he wasn't sore by the time it was over, Sunday was supposed to be a day of relaxing, not getting over the ass kicking you had the day before.

Derek used his speed to once again disappear from sight and took his time by trying to distract Stiles by moving from bush to bush hoping to noise would confuse his sense.

Moving from the last bush Derek rush towards Stiles and proceeded to sweep kick his leg, effectively knocking Stiles down.

Stiles once again managed to look at Derek before the attack happened; it was tiring to be so close to dodging the attack only to fail.

'Ok next time, I will dodge him, I need to be able to do this, he may not be wolfed out but he's using his speed and I need to be able to dodge him, if I can dodge him then I could dodge monster well hopefully.'

Stiles got back up and took his stance again but he closed his eyes and breathed in and out, relaxing his muscles entirely and focusing all his energy on his senses.

Derek speed off and jumped into the trees around his house, jumping from tree to tree slowly getting closer and closer to Stiles, he jumped off the last tree and zoomed towards the tree that Stiles once had his back against but that was now behind him, Derek jumped into a spinning circle and once his feet hit the tree, he push off and zoomed straight toward Stiles.

Stiles had his sense open and heard Derek coming and dodge his attack.

Derek came out of his circle and landed on his feet and had his hand on the ground to steady himself before his charged and came behind Stiles again attempting to give him the same light tap that he gave him last time.

Stiles however was ready and grabbed Derek's hand before it came to close to his head; he then kicked his foot in a sweeping motion and almost succeeded in knocking Derek down.

Derek saw the flash in Stiles form that signal he was most likely going to attack and dodged his foot and break his hand free from Stiles' grip.

Stiles opened his eyes and had his usual smile on.

'Finally it only took me about ten minutes and oh my gosh I'm already sweating.'

Stiles took this little victory as a sign to start talking which of course was a bad idea.

"See Derek I told you not to underestimate me. Just think once I get control over my powers I'll be a force to be ooof. "

Derek took this opportunity to show Stiles that no matter what victory he had, he always had to be on alert; he ran up to Stiles and punched him square in the jaw. It wasn't particularly hard but it was enough for Stiles to be thrown off guard and fall on his ass.

'OK Derek I see how you want to play this game, time for me to go on the offense.'

Stiles got up and dusted himself off and took a new stance, his hands remained in front of him but instead of open palms they turned into fists.

Stiles charged towards Derek and had every intention of knocking that grin off his face. He faked left and went right towards Derek and threw a left hook towards his cheek hoping to at least land a hit.

No such luck.

Derek caught his hand and pulled Stiles towards him and kicked his leg and tried to send Stiles tumbling into a front flip right on his back.

It almost happened except Stiles landed the front flip on his feet and since Derek still had his hand, Stiles reach behind him and used his other hand to grab Derek's hand and tried to flip him: Derek however broke free and Stiles did the only he could from using all his weight to flip Derek, …. Fall right on his face.

Derek smirked again but not because Stiles fell, it was because Stiles was showing that once again he didn't need people to worry about him twenty- four seven, if only Stiles had realized this before Gerard got a hold of him, maybe he wouldn't have to fear so much when people scared him.

Derek tried to ignore it but it's hard when the kid's heart rate would spike so high just from being slightly shocked, what made it worse was the fact that even after realizing who it was that Stiles was looking at, his heart rate didn't slow down until minutes later. It was still irregular and his heart from some reason beats weird, it's not a normal steadiness, it starts off that way and then blips fast then goes back to being normal, maybe it's because Stiles his self is always going a mile a minute with ideas.

Whatever the case may be when it comes to Stiles, one thing was for sure, when you're dealing with Stiles expect the unexpected because after falling right on his face, Stiles picked himself up and started laughing.

"Hahahahaha oh my god, I never thought those self-defense classes would help me that much. Seriously I kept up with a freaking werewolf, maybe not in speed but I was able to dodge an attack and even counter a few."

Hearing Stiles laugh did something to Derek, he didn't get all warm and fuzzy on the inside, his heart didn't swell with happiness and his face didn't break out into a smile but something about hearing Stiles laugh, and be so care free calmed Derek and for a few seconds he allowed his self to relax and take in the moment of what that laugh meant. They may be training to stop mythological creatures from taking over but there was Stiles laugh and bringing entertainment in the situation, it was just something that only Stiles could do and for that Derek was grateful, to be able to have a few precious seconds of carelessness, Derek would trade anything for that but he would never say it out loud.

"Stiles we do still have practice to return to." Derek made have been relaxed but he knew it would be short lived and there was no reason to let one moment ruin the day. Now was not the time to focus on the little things in life.

"Oh come on sourwolf, lighten up, we have already been at this for what seems to be an hour and I' m already learning, can't you let me have at least a moment of happiness to laugh at the fact that I'm actually doing good?"

Maybe it was because the look Stiles had in his eyes, so full of light, maybe it was because Derek didn't want to push him too much or maybe it was because Derek was rewarding him without even knowing but he agreed with Stiles just this once and decided to give everyone a thirty minute break while he went to talk to Stiles.

'I know now isn't the time to bring this up but If I don't do it now who knows if that kid will ever use his head and figure it out.'

Derek walked up to Stiles and decided the best way to begin was by just asking the question and getting it over with.

"Who was your mother Stiles, you had to get your powers from somewhere and no offense but your dad doesn't even know about the supernatural world so I know it's not him."

See short simple and to the point, Derek thought he was doing good but Scott heard the question and was instantly by Stiles side and shouting at Derek.

"Dude what the fuck is wrong with you?! You don't bring up shit like that out of nowhere, you don't even know Stiles enough to ask that kind of question and you know how sensitive of a subject that is for him.!"

Derek should have known better, the pictures he saw when he was in Stiles house should have told him something, they were so clean and spotless, no dust, no scratches, it was obvious that no women was around and that Stiles deeply cared for her, who doesn't love their mom?

Scott's eyes were burning bright gold with a flame so fierce it makes everyone notice even Peter.

It was as if you could feel the rage pouring out of Scott in an effort to protect Stiles, his hand was on his shoulder, he was slowly pulling Stiles closer to him and Stiles just looked like he shut down.

"It's ok Stiles, he didn't know, just come out of your head, you're ok, just come back to us please."

Scott was clinging onto Stiles like he was scared for Stile's life; the desperate pleas that were flowing out of him were truly shocking to everyone except Allison.

Once Stiles' mom died, he went into a dark depression, he didn't cut him self because he didn't want the scares, instead he shut down, he kept everything bottled up, until one day during their freshman year Scott was over playing call of duty and Stiles just shut down and started screaming.

The blood from the game reminded him of his mom, she had a brain tumor and no one knew until blood started slowly dripping from her ears. By the time they got to the hospital, she was coughing it up Stiles was thirteen at the time and he watched his mom slowly die in the hospital from one year, she fought the tumor only to get weaker and weaker before she just gave up fighting and died, holding her husband and Stiles while Scott and Melissa stood from afar watching the heart breaking scene and silently promising to make sure they did everything they could to help them through this.

Allison was the first person Scott opened up to about it, Scott was scared that all this werewolf business would take a toll on Stiles because he kept disappearing, Scott wasn't stupid, he knew he was being an ass and that Stiles was feeling underappreciated, it's just that he wanted to protect Allison and stop Gerard and Jackson and somehow even though Stiles may have been around Scott a lot, he never once found a way to ask if Stiles was ok. He didn't give Stiles an option to leave and never look back; it was as if he just expected Stiles to help him because that's what friends do.

Scott knew it was wrong but Stiles never once said he didn't want to help and maybe that's what the problem, Stiles never asked for help, he refused to let anyone know he was hurting, and that may have been why after that breakdown Scott was so protective of him, he wanted to make up for all the times he ditched Stiles for Allison, he wanted Stiles to know that he would always be there.

Stiles look up at Derek, and said two words before he left into the Hale house, "Catherine Jones."

Scott looked at Stiles and waited for the door to close before he turned to Derek.

"That was his mom's name before she became a Stilinski. She was someone you could turn to for anything, Stiles is the spitting image of her, he has her nose, her eyes, and if he let his hair grown out a little more, he could pass for a girl, I've seen it before, I even have a picture but he hates it that long. The only reason it got that long in the first place was because I saw his hair grow but he said he needed it cut, and I wanted to see just how long it would grow. It ended up reaching his shoulders and he wore it in a ponytail before he begged me to cut it, his mom just laughed and said "Maybe I should call you Sarah with your hair like that."

He smiles just as often as she did, and he even cooks just as good, it's almost as if her spirit is living with him. So before you bring his mom up again at least have some respect and do it in private."

With that Scott walked to the house to look for Stiles.

Stiles came out just as Scott was walking to the door. He smiled and shouted, "EVERYONE LOOK!"

Stiles then took a triangle off his bracelet and proceeded to have it fly around him.

He smiled and walked up to Derek.

" I learned how to use my powers well at least I think I did, I found my anchor thanks to you and I wanted to say thanks and well let's get training!"

Author's note: Ok so I actually wasn't originally going to put anything about his mom in this story but then I thought about it and said well magic has to run in the family and his mom would be the perfect choice because the Sherriff doesn't know anything about the supernatural world, so it can't be him, I wanted Derek to be an ass and ask because it gave me an idea of having Stiles be vulnerable and give a glimpse of the way I see Stiles, because every time his mom was mention, there was something that just made me feel so bad. He told Scott he used to have panic attacks after his mom died which means Scott had no idea and this was before Allison so in my head Stiles kept in a secret from anyone. When Stiles got his dad drunk to get information out of him on the case, his dad mentioned missing his wife and Stiles froze and for a moment it was as if Stiles was freezing because they made an agreement not to mention her, Stiles then took the alcohol from his dad and hangs out with his dad, he did say he missed Stiles and to me it seemed like Stiles was feeling guilty for what he did but I can't get the part of his saying he missed his mom as the reason that Stiles told him to stop drinking.

And then in Season 2 when Lydia makes everyone drink that crap at her party and his dad is yelling at Stiles and saying he took his wife away from him, Stiles was crying and it made me think it was something that actually happened and maybe that's why Stiles doesn't mention her. Anyway next chapter will feature more of Stiles and go into detail about how he found out how to control his powers, explain what he was thinking when he shut down and also Derek and Stiles will get a little closer.