True North - Derek Hale [1]

two| magic bullet

That night, as Ryker was in one of the guest rooms in the Argent house, he woke up to the sound of bullets and was confused. He then heard Chris leaving the house and watched as he was confronted by Allison who looked at him confused "where are you going?" 

"Kate got a flat tire," Chris spoke calmly as Ryker's blood went cold and his glare hardened at the mention of Kate. When they were young, Chris and Ryker had always hated the thought of killing innocent beings and managed to justify all of the training they had gotten by killing only those who deserved it but Kate. Kate was willing to kill anyone just because they were different than her. 

In other words, if Ryker or Chris saw a supernatural being but they weren't hurting anyone they tended not to bother it while Kate was willing to go in guns blazing. Let's just say it caused some friction between the three siblings. 

It only got worse when Ryker was turned. He couldn't stomach killing his own people so he slowly pulled away and Kate was none too happy about it. 

When Kate and Ryker got into a blowout argument one night about it, Ryker called Kate a cold-blooded murderer and stormed off never returning to Beacon Hills until now. 

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He heard Kate before he saw her. She always had that grating and annoying voice but it only got worse ever since he had turned. He looked at Kate and Allison who were laughing in Allison's room as he walked down the hall. 

Ryker rolled his eyes and headed back into his room. Kate had followed him and sighed "well, if it isn't the coward come back to town." 

"Enough," Ryker growled trying to keep his voice as level as possible though he could feel his anger at her raging through his body. "what do you want Kate?" 

She moved closer "I want you not to be such a wuss and come back to the hunting business." 

"No," Ryker looked at his sister in disbelief that she was still trying this knowing how he felt about hunting. "It's wrong, Kate. Some of the people you killed didn't do anything other than try to survive." 

Kate just glared at him and left the room. Ryker took a deep breath and unclenched his hands. It was then that he realized his palms had bloody marks on them from where his claws had come out and dug into his hands. 

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That afternoon, Ryker came down the stairs to see a boy in the doorway. He looked at his niece in the kitchen "who's he?" 

"Hi Uncle Ry," Allison said as she returned to the foyer. "That's Scott McCall my partner for science." 

Ryker knew immediately that Scott was a werewolf as he smelled supernatural and his tiger reacted to the wolf. He could tell that Scott sensed him as well but didn't particularly know what to do with it. 

That night, it was two were beings and a bunch of hunters for dinner which almost made Ryker laugh out loud until Scott excused himself to go to the bathroom and headed back up the stairs. Ryker heard Scott's phone ring and then heard a familiar voice over the phone but he couldn't place it. 

Ryker focused his hearing even more and fought the urge to gasp when Scott said the name Derek. It was then that Ryker realized Derek Hale as in the Hale Family. He listened more and heard the pained sounds on the other end of the phone and something about finding a bullet. 

Ryker then remembered Kate talking to Chris when they thought no one was awake last night. Kate said that she had shot one of the werewolves she saw. She must have seen Derek. 

He excused himself and walked up the stairs to his room in time to see Scott head into the bathroom. He heard someone over the phone tell Scott that they needed the Nordic Blue Monkshood bullet. Ryker grimaced at the name. He knew exactly what that bullet could do to a werewolf. 

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Ryker quickly looked around and made his way to Kate's room. He paused before going to her bag and pulling out her bag of bullets. He looked around and reached in before hissing in pain as he pulled his hand back out and saw it was burning. 

He looked where he had put his hand and chuckled sardonically as he recognized the symbol of Oleander. Kate had Oleander weapons in her bag. He shook his head and pulled out one of the Monkshood bullets before putting it in his pocket and leaving the room. 

Scott who had headed downstairs and was trying to figure out how to get one of the bullets was stunned when Allison's uncle Ryker told him that he would drive him home. Once outside and in the car Ryker looked at Scott "where's Derek?" 

Scott looked confused "how do you kno-" 

Ryker let his eyes flash gold "I'll explain later." He then held up the bullet "where's Derek?" 

Scott told him where to go and they walked in on Stiles nearly cutting Derek's arm off. Derek looked at Ryker "why is an Argent here?" 

"Are you really going to complain? Or are you going to let me save your life?" 

Derek looked annoyed as Ryker pulled out the bullet and tore it in half dumping out the gunpowder. Ryker set it on fire and gathered the powder before looking at Derek "this is going to hurt." 

"Just do it," Derek spoke as he braced himself unaware of what was making him trust the Argent. 

Ryker pressed the powder into Derek's arm as the Hale groaned in pain before collapsing to the floor. He screamed out again in pain as the others watched the infection heal. 

Derek got up and Scott looked at him "we saved your life which means you're going to leave us alone. You got that? And if you don't I'm gonna go back to Allison's dad and I'm gonna tell him everything."

"You're gonna trust them? You think they can help you?" Derek spoke but Ryker could see the pain in his eyes. 

"Why not? They're a lot freaking nicer than you are!" Scott spoke. 

"I wouldn't be too sure about that." Ryker couldn't help but speak as Scott and Derek just remembered that he was there. 

"Why are you here?" Derek asked Ryker.

"I don't know," Ryker spoke equally confused. "I felt like I had to help." 

Scott looked at Allison's uncle "what are you?" 

"I'm a weretiger, the only one of my kind." He looked between Scott and Derek "and no neither Chris nor Kate knows what I am." 

Derek shrugged "we'll talk about that later." He then turned to Scott "I can show you exactly how nice they are." 

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They all pulled up to the Beacon Crossing Facility and walked into a dark room that had a man sitting there. Derek looked down at him with pain in his eyes as Ryker and Scott looked at each other confused. Scott asked Derek "who is he?" 

Derek sighed "my uncle. Peter Hale." 

Scott and Ryker stared at Peter stunned as he just sat there. Scott asked "is he like you? A werewolf?" 

"He was," Derek sighed as he went through the memories. "Now he's barely even human. Six years ago, my sister and I were at school. Our house caught fire. Eleven people were trapped inside. He was the only survivor." 

"So, what makes you so sure that they set the fire?" 

Derek looked at Scott "because they were the only ones that knew about us." As they left the room, Ryker had a bad feeling that he knew exactly who was responsible.