The Bear and The Panther *(rough draft)*

Chapter 1: Return

*Rosalie*
I am on my way to surprise visit my dear cousin Derek Hale and i am just imaging what he might look like after all these years, i bet he still has that black spiky hairdo of his. As i drive through Beacon Hills i reminisce about all the fun me, Laura, and Derek would have running through the woods.

*Derek*
I am so overwhelmed! Boyd and Erica have been kidnapped by an Alpha pack, Isaac and Peter have been looking for them for almost a month and i am left all alone in my burnt house. You know, sometimes i wonder how my cousin Rosalie has been after all these long years. Does she even know about the fire? Or that Peter went all Physco alpha? She was one of me and Laura's best friends, she would help my mom with keeping us contained on full moons, she was just a super good person.

*Rosalie*
I am just down the road from their house and i am wondering if i should have called or not? What if they moved? And as i enter the drive i am just waiting to see their big white mansion of a house when instead i see.... Their house is all burnt and most of the top floor has caved in! I really hope everyone is okay and they moved or something before this happened. I get out of my car with cautious steps and i walk up to the front door, i push it open and i can smell the faint burnt smell of the walls. "Oh my gosh" i whisper to myself thinking of what could have happened, i walk into what use to be the beautiful living room but is now just a charred and falling apart piece of the house.

*Derek*
I was sleeping in my old room, one of the only rooms that wasn't burnt too bad when i was awoke by something moving in the house. I get up quietly from the bed and walk to the door and listen... One heart beat. I smell and they smell kind of familiar but i cant place them, so i walk out and into the hallway slowly making my way towards the balcony that overlooks the front door and the entrance to the living room.

*Rosalie*
I touch the walls and the once brilliant white paint chips off under my fingers, i then go to walk back to my car but when i get to the door i hear something. I stop and i turn around to be face to face with someone and in an instant their strong hand is wrapped around my neck lifting me off the ground "why are you in my house!" His deep voice booms and it takes my mind to register but then it hits me "Derek?" I ask "its me... Rosalie" i say and immediately he lets go of my throat and catches me before i fall. "Rosalie? Is it really you?" He asks and i nod and hug him "What happened here Derek?" I ask and i feel him stiffen "the Argents" he says in a deadly voice "oh Derek, im so sorry. Did everyone-" "no. Only me, Laura, and Peter survived. But Laura is dead" he says and i hold back a sob "how did-" "well thats a long story, when the time is right i will fill you in on everything" he answers and i nod.

*Derek*
I cant believe Rosalie is here! But i also cant believe i am the one who is gonna have to tell her all the terrible things that have happened in the past year or so. "Why did you come here?" I ask her and she says "well, i hadn't seen you guys in so long so i came to see how you all were" and i can tell she is taking this almost as bad as i did. "So the Argents are responsible for this?" She asks all the sudden and i tell her "yes, but the one Argent that was behind this is also dead" "did you kill her?" She asks and i can tell she would feel better to hear i did "no Peter did, and it was Kate" i tell Rose "i knew one of the Argents would eventually brake their sacred little pact!" She hisses and i can tell she hasn't shifted yet because when i was grieving i couldn't control my shift and Laura had to keep me in chains because i was a danger to others and myself.