Burn Amongst Humanity [D. Hale ]

|LXVII|

Casey got out of the car and she walked over to Derek, silently now ducking through the fence. Derek's eyes were glowing and Casey stopped a little, holding up her opened hands.

"I'm not going to hurt you, Derek, do you recognize me?" Casey asked and he nodded.

"Wh-what happened here?" Derek asked as Casey gently crouched down next to him. "Why does it cause you so much stress, Casey?" He asked as she looked at him.

"Because here, there-there was a terrible accident. But, you were not in it. You don't remember it, but I promise you, that there was nothing that you could have done to stop it." Casey was signing and Derek looked at her. "If you come with me now, I can really explain it. All of it, I swear." She was being truthful and Derek could hear her heartbeat.

Until Casey spun around and when she saw the police vehicle pulling up to them, she briefly started to panic at the sight. Until she noticed that Jordan was in the passenger seat.

"Thank God for that."

She had, but a single second to think of the words, until she saw that Haigh was walking with him.

"Never mind."

Casey thought to herself and after Derek had gotten emotional, he had accidentally pushed Haigh into a pile of wood and Haigh was tasering him.

"Haigh! Haigh, stand down!" Jordan was yelling and while he was trying to contain his partner, Casey dove at Haigh as she was tackling him and the taser went flying.

"That is enough!" Casey signed furiously and he glared at her in a fury, before he pushed her away and Derek was on the ground and as soon as she was off of him, Deputy Haigh's handcuffs were on Derek's wrists and Casey looked at Jordan, who was looking at her with worry in his face and she was shaking out her jacket as she looked at him. "It is a very, very long story." She signed and Jordan, he nodded.

Casey was in the Sheriff's station as she was glaring at Deputy Haigh from across the room, as she was shaking her head. "Are you okay?" She signed at Derek, who nodded. Casey walked over to stand next to him quickly, at the sight of Jordan and Haigh looking at him. "What is going on now, you two?" Casey asks through a swift bunch of signs.

Casey looked over Jordan's shoulder and she understood why they looked so damn confused. Casey was staring at a picture of the adult Derek Hale as it were and now, the deputies in front of her must be totally, in a nightmare of confusion.

- Hale Loft -

"Casey, never really thought that I would see you here without Derek a few feet behind." Peter noted and she looked at him.

"Need your help. Long story, but we need your help." Casey asked and he looked at her, narrowing his eyes.

"With what, exactly?" Peter asked and she sighed as she was very briefly closing her eyes, before she looked at him again.

"With Derek." She admitted and Peter's eyes flashed with confusion and she sighed. "He has been aged backward... He is 17 again and he is not in complete control. He doesn't know what happened with the Fire."

"Jesus." Peter remarked as Casey nodded a little, as he motioned for her to come inside and Casey walked in.

"Wait, Kate wants the Triskelion?" She signed and Peter looked over at her as he nodded. "The vault, it's under the high school, right?" She asked as Peter, he nodded.

"You remember that?" Peter asked and Casey nodded a little. "Derek and I, we hid in the Vault with you once, after your father had beat the shit out of you." Peter remembered as she nodded.

"You guys saved me." Casey remembered and he nodded a bit at the words. "Let's go save Derek." She signed and they nodded.

||Beacon Hills High School||

Casey, Malia and Scott were doing their utmost best to avoid the pair of Berserkers, as Casey lunged for them with guns blazing.

Then suddenly, a howl echoed through the air and Derek came running, after Kira had been sent flying away. "Derek!" Casey signed swiftly and she watched the fight, and she didn't dare use her guns to help, for fear of accidentally hitting him instead of the Berserkers.

"Derek?" Scott asked after the Berserkers had run and Derek was standing up as an adult, he looked much more familiar to the others as Casey winced, forcing herself once again, to get back up onto her feet.

Derek turned around and he looked up at them, as his eyes glowed golden yellow, a color that stunned Casey clearly into surprise. "Derek?" She whispered in a raspy tone and he looked at her, nodding a little. Casey didn't know whether to laugh or cry, as she walked quickly over and she threw her arms around him for a hug.