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[firsttofreedom]

Characters: Isaac, Derek
Date/Time: 10.15AM
Setting: Out the front of school
Summary: Isaac goes to talk to Coach. It doesn't go well.
Rating: TBD
Status: Open to Derek
Warnings: Mpreg, emotional teenage boys

It hadn't gone well. At first, Coach had thought Isaac was teasing, trying to pull a fast one on him by telling him he couldn't play, but as it became clear that the teen was serious and had absolutely no intention of remaining on the team, Coach had begun to grow annoyed. That was when he turned it around to the whole 'you're letting the team down' speech, possibly in an attempt to guilt Isaac into changing his mind.

Any other time it would have worked. But then he placed his hand on his own stomach and he remembered why he was doing this.

And then Coach had said; "nothing is important enough for you to turn your back on the team" and Isaac had lost it, turning around and all but running from the locker rooms as tears brimmed in his eyes and an irrational sadness settled over him. He ignored Erica as he passed, just kept on walking, phone in hand even while he could hear Erica tapping away at her's.

He sent a simple text:

To Derek: come get me

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As soon as Isaac sees the Camaro, he moves towards it and tucks himself against Derek's chest, hands clenching tightly in his shirt. He didn't say anything, just pulled the Alpha closer and let loose a high pitched, pathetic sounding whimper.

"I should've let you talk to him."

[suchasourwolf]

"What did he say to you?" Derek's arms are immediately around Isaac, holding him protectively. The whimper breaks his heart and makes him clutch Isaac that much tighter, nose buried in the beta's hair.

"Erica texted me right after you did. What happened."

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Isaac doesn't answer straight away, just tucks his head against the side of Derek's nose. He can feel eyes on them and he doesn't care; the need for comfort is too much. "He told me that nothing was important enough to abandon my team mates for. He told me our baby isn't important."

And even while logically he can understand that Coach isn't aware of the circumstances and therefore doesn't know, in Isaac's hormonal, protective mind the logic doesn't have a leg to stand on.

[suchasourwolf]

"He doesn't know about our baby," Derek reminds him gently, nuzzling his temple and kissing his forehead. "Only we know, just you and me. Your coach is a dick, he doesn't think anything is important outside of the game. But we know that's not true, okay?"

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Even though he knows the words are true, they offer no comfort, distress already set in and emotions going crazy. "He is important. Our baby... Our baby is important. More important than lacrosse." He clings to Derek tighter, squeezing his eyes closed against the tears that threatened to fall and Isaac would laugh at the ridiculousness of it all if he wasn't feeling so heart broken.

[suchasourwolf]

"So much more important." Derek just keeps holding him, rubbing his back gently and kissing his hair. "He doesn't matter, okay? What he says, what he does doesn't matter."

He takes a deep breath to calm himself, not wanting to cause a scene by storming in and tearing Finnstock's throat out. "Let's get you home."

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Isaac curls both arms around Derek's waist, underneath his leather jacket and just nods, breaths coming out gasps and broken with emotion. He feels hurt and stupid for thinking there was a chance that the Coach would take his quitting at all well.

"Please. I just... I don't want to be around here. Can... Can you tell Erica to stay away for a bit?"

[suchasourwolf]

"I'll let the rest of the pack know that you need space." He'll stand guard and growl at anyone who tries to set foot in Isaac's room, as well.

Gently, like he might break. Derek gathers Isaac up into his arms and carries him to the car, settling him carefully in the passenger's seat before climbing in and speeding them off towards home.

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"Thank you." The Beta just wasn't up to facing the whole pack yet. Too many people didn't know about the baby and that meant no one except Derek could understand why he was so upset.

Curling up in the seat, Isaac holds both hands over his belly protectively and leans sideways towards the Alpha in the drivers seat. "I wanna tell them soon."

[suchasourwolf]

Derek nods and wraps an arm around Isaac, rubbing his back soothingly. "Whenever you're ready. When you feel up to it, we can."

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"I just... They need to know. They need to know why." Why Isaac wasn't planning on going back to school after today. He couldn't stand to be around people who didn't know and therefore didn't care about the life growing inside of him that he was already so in love with.

"I'm not going back."

[suchasourwolf]

"Not ever? Are you sure?" He felt bad that because of this, Isaac couldn't graduate this year, but he thought he'd at least get to have another month or two of school.

"Hey, you know what. That's fine. If that's what you need to do, then do it. Somewhere down the line, you can take the GED if you want to."

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"I can't be around people who don't know. They don't understand." He places his hand on his stomach. While originally he had been rather upset about what his pregnancy meant for the end of his schooling, now that didn't matter at all.

Isaac looks over at Derek. "Education can wait. My baby can't."

[suchasourwolf]

"Our baby," he reassures him, taking his hand and squeezing it gently. "We're in this together."

Back at the house, Derek shoos away all the betas that are there, and texts the rest that Isaac needs a bit of alone time. Then he tucks Isaac into bed and curls around him protectively, one hand automatically drifting down to rest against his stomach.

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"Our baby." Isaac curls up against Derek as soon as the Alpha gets them into the bed. He'd ignored Boyd on the way up, not even bothering to wonder why he hadn't gone to school.

"Do you ever think that this'd be easier if I were a girl?" And by that, what he meant was, would you rather it if I were a girl?

[suchasourwolf]

He's honestly taken aback by the question, blinking a few times while he tries to process it. "I don't -- no, not really. The birth might be easier, since you'll have to get a c-section. But other than that, no?"

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"We could tell people. You wouldn't need to hide it. How happy you are." Because Isaac knew that Derek was thrilled and he was sure that, secretly, the Alpha just wanted everyone to know about the upcoming cubs.

But with Isaac being male, and male pregnancies being completely unheard of, they couldn't announce it. And with the Beta's insecurities, even their pack didn't know.

So Derek had to pretend.

[suchasourwolf]

"You're still a minor, so we actually couldn't tell anyone anyway. Not without me being arrested. You'd still have to leave school early, since it's not a nine-month term, and that would look weird. So it doesn't matter if you were a girl, we'd still have to work around things. We still couldn't tell anyone outside of the pack."

As he talks, he rubs his hand over Isaac's stomach soothingly, nuzzling his neck and trying to exude reassuring vibes.

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Those were both points Isaac hadn't thought of and he held Derek's gaze for a few more moments before tucking his head back under his mate's chin. "I don't know what's going on with me. I feel so... lost in my own skin."

[suchasourwolf]

"It's okay. It'll get easier as you get more used to the idea. And then in five months, you'll have your own body back."

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"I just feel so sad and happy and angry and scared all at the same time. I just want to curl up in bed with you and not face the world. And then other times I just want to scream out to everyone the news of our baby." He looks up at Derek again. "It's the hormones, isn't it?"

[suchasourwolf]

"I think so, yeah. And being a wolf, your emotions are heightened, which just makes everything worse."

He wraps his arms tighter around Isaac and kisses him softly. "We can definitely hide from the world for a while, if you want."

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"It's just a huge jumble in my head all the time. I feel best when I'm with you; when it's you, me and our baby. I can revel, then."

Isaac kisses back gently, tangling a hand in Derek's hair. "I'd like that."

[suchasourwolf]

He makes a soft noise at the hand in his hair and nudges his nose against Isaac's. "We'll tell the rest of the pack when you feel up to it, and then we can revel with them, too."

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"Tomorrow. I want to tell them tomorrow." He wasn't sure why, but he knew he needed to do it, needed the pack to know. It was harder than he'd expected it to be, keeping it all from them.