PLAYER | DEREK HALE

Visionary

"What do you think happened they were teenagers. One minute it was I hate you, don't talk too me and the next it's frantic grouping in any dark corner they can find them selfs alone in for five minutes" Peter says

"Never say grouping again" I state

"Their favourite dark corner was an abandoned distillery outside of Beacon Hills"

"Alright hold up" Stiles says "how do you know all this? You just said they were alone"

"Back then I wasn't just Derek's uncle. I was his best friend, his closest confidant. That's how I know" Peter says

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Peter begins drawing a swirl on the misted window

"Our mark for vendetta" Peter says

"Man you guys really just take that revenge thing to a whole new level don't yah?" Stiles says

"It's not just revenge" Cora says "loosing a member of your pack isn't like loosing your family. It's like you loose a limb"

"They wouldn't even let him see the body" Peter says

And he starts telling us about Ennius and one of his pack members

"I don't get it, what does this have to do with Derek?" I ask

Peter turns to me

"Everything" he says "it's never just a single moment to confluence an event. Personally I looked at Ennius' circumstances, I saw profound loss. Derek saw something different. He saw opportunity"

"Opportunity to do what?"

"Too always be with her"

"The thing was he had this constant fear" Peter says "he was obsessing over it. Thinking about, all night, all day, always on his mind"

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"I kept telling him not to do it. Everyday the more I thought about it, the more convinced he became" Peter says "you know teenagers. I bet he even blames me? He's probably convinced himself that the thing was all my idea"

"Was it your idea?" I ask Peter but he says nothing

"They keep us connected to humanity but there's secret even in the pack. Sometimes only the alpha knows who the emissary is. Derek and I had no idea about Deaton" Cora says

"Or his sister, Morell" Peter says

"She's an emissary too?" Stiles asks

"For the alpha pack"

"Our guidance counsellor?" Stiles says almost yelling and Peter and Cora give each other a look "why don't you people tell me any of this stuff? I shared some really intimate details with her"

"And did she give good advice?" Cora asks

"Actually yeah"

"That's what they do. That's what Deaton used too do for Talia" Peter says and he starts telling us the rest of the story

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"Ennius, why would you choose him?" Cora asks

"Why not? Ennius needed a new member for his pack" Peter says "Paige was young and strong. Doing a favour for Derek meant Ennius would be in good terms with Talia. Back then, everyone wanted to be good with her"

"He doesn't remember it was Ennius, does he?" I say

"If he does he keeps it too himself"

"So then what happened? Did her turn her?" Stiles asks

"Almost" Peter says "he came at Ennius. Fifteen year old boy against a giant but it was too late... She had already been bitten"

"So did she turn?"

"She should have" Peter says "most of the time the bite takes, most of the time"

"When you offered it too me. You said if it doesn't kill you" Stiles says

"If..." Peter says and continues the story "he knew the answer though. It didn't matter that she was young and strong. Some people just aren't made for this. She fought, she struggled desperately, trying to survive."

I feel tears start to form in my eyes as Peter is telling us about Paige.

"I remember taking her body from his arms. Too the woods in a place where I knew it would be found. Another in a long line of Beacon Hills animal attacks" Peter says

"What about Derek?" I ask voice almost cracking

"Taking an innocent life takes something from you as well" Peter says "a bit of your soul, darkening it, dimming in the once brilliant, cold and yellow. To cold, steel blue. Like mine"

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"What?" Cora asks Stiles "what's this look on your face?"

"What look?"

"The kind of look that makes me want too punch you" Cora says

"My god you are so Derek's sister. Forgot" Stiles says

"What is with the look?"

"I just don't believe him" Stiles says "Miss Blake's class we're reading heart of darkness and it's ok first person, narrated by Monroe. The thing is he's an unreliable narrator. You know the details have changed you know just because of his perspective"

"Than we've heard the story from Peters perspective"

"Right and I don't think we got the whole story" Stiles says

"So what are you just going to ask Derek about the girl he fell In love with and then killed?" I ask Stiles

"If I have too, yeah"