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"Acalia!" Deucalion shouts to his daughter
"Yes?" 8 year old Acalia asks her father
"We need to go to Aunt Talia's." He says.

"Yes!" She cheers and gets in the car and they drive to the house
"Hi Uncle Peter."
"Hello, buttercup." He says looking up from his book.

"I heard what happened. Are you okay?" She asks, Deucalion always told her what happened with everything because he didn't want to shielded anything with the hunter from her
"I'm fine, though two days with just Derek was awful." He says and she laughs.

"Aunt Tali!" Acalia says hugging her
"Hello, Acali. Your father and I need to go somewhere. We'll be back." She says and turns to Deucalion and they both leave.

"So, do you want to do something?" Peter asks and Acalia nods.

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"They were there for two days, waiting. Hiding. That's what we're taught to do when the Hunters find us-- hide and heal." Cora says looking out of the window of the loft
"Okay, so, is two days standard, then, or are we thinking Derek's on, like, some extended getaway?" Stiles says.

"Why do you care?" Cora asks
"Why do I care? Let's see..." Stiles says
"Here we go." Rayne says.

"Because, over the last few weeks: my best friend's tried to kill himself; his boss nearly got ritually sacrificed; a girl that I've known since I was three was ritually sacrificed; Boyd was killed by Alphas... I... Do you want me to keep going? 'Cause I can, all right? For, like, an hour." He says.

"You think Derek can do anything about that?" Cora asks
"Well, since he's the one everyone seems to be after, it's more like he should do something about it, yeah." Stiles says
"I don't know... There's something different about him now. He wasn't like this when I knew him." Cora says.

"What was he like?" Stiles asks
"A lot like Scott, actually. A lot like most teenagers-- unbearably romantic, profoundly narcissistic, tolerable really only to other teenagers..." Peter says from the stairs
"And so what happened? What changed him?" Stiles asks.

"Well, the same thing that changes a lot of young men... A girl."
"Paige." Rayne mumbles and Peter looks at her confused
"You're telling me some girl broke his little heart? That's why Derek is the way he is?" Stiles asks.

"Do you remember Derek, before he was an Alpha, had blue eyes? Do you know why some wolves have blue eyes?" Peter asks
"I just always thought it was, like, a genetic thing." Stiles says.

"If you want to know what changed Derek, you need to know what changed the color of his eyes."

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"Okay, so if Derek was a sophomore back then, how old was he? How old were you? How old are you now?" Stiles asks
"Not as young as we could have been, but not as old as you might think." Peter says
"Okay, that was frustratingly vague. How old are you?" Stiles asks Cora.

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