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chapter ten derek loved a girl
"they were there for two days, waiting, hunting. that's what we're taught to do when hunters find us.....hide and heal," cora watched the rainfall from the window.
since the death of boyd, derek has been missing. it felt as if he vanished into thin air. no one's heard from him. so, that's why dylan and stiles went to the loft to get any information from peter and cora.
"okay, so it's two day standard, then," stiles began, "or are we thinking derek's on, like, some extended getaway?"
cora turned to face the two, "why do you care?"
"why do i care? let's see..." stiles started as he paced around, "because over the last few weeks scott 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. 1... do you want me to keep going? cause i can, all right? for, like, an hour."
"she gets the point, stiles," dylan said in a softer tone, standing next to him with her arms crossed.
"you think derek can do anything about that?" cora asked him.
"well, since he's the one everyone seems to be after," stiles pointed out, "it's more like he should do something about it, yeah."
"i don't know," cora told them, "there's something different about him now. he wasn't like this when we knew him."
"what was he like?" dylan asked, curious, sitting on the table, wanting to know what derek hale was like before they knew him.
"a lot like scott, actually," peter walked down the spiral stairs, "a lot like most teenagers...unbearably romantic, profoundly narcissistic, tolerable really only to other teenagers."
"so what happened? what changed him?" stiles wondered.
"well, same thing that changes a lot of young men...." peter looked from stiles to dylan, "a girl."
"you're telling me some girl broke his little heart?" stiles asked in disbelief, eyes widening, "that's why derek is the way he is?"
"do you remember before derek had blue eyes?" peter looked at cora, "do you know why some wolves have blue eyes?"
stiles shrugged, "i just thought it was, like, a genetic thing."
"if you wanted 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?" stiles asked as he took a seat on the stool. peter sat on the couch, cora leaned against the wall and dylan sat where she's been since the beginning, "how old are you?" he looked at peter, "how old are you now?"
