No matter how pissed off he is at Scott or how little he trusts him Derek would never leave the kid to the Alphas' dubious mercy. The one thing he remembers clearly from his childhood in Beacon Hills is that it was always his family's responsibility to keep the supernatural peace and keep everything in balance. He never really had much of an idea how the adults did it, being included in that would have come later, but it was something his mother had taken very seriously. Protecting the territory, and everyone in it, from supernatural threats was the Alpha's job. It's why Laura had come back, though he hadn't known it at the time, and now that responsibility has passed to him... no matter how epically he sucks at it.
With that in mind he waits impatiently for Stiles to parse through the last two weeks for an answer to his question, and for at least some idea if the others are in immediate danger. He shifts restlessly and has to bite back on a growl. Now t hat he knows where Boyd and Erica are (or at least might be) he wants to go there now, wants to kill anyone who dares to get in his way and bring them home. They might have left, but whatever happened after that the bond between them was never severed and they're still his, he can feel it bone deep.
"Scott's been there alone and you've all been there together and in different combinations, then?" he asks when Stiles is finished, refusing to address the issue of Boyd and Erica's location for the moment, because if he does he won't be able to focus on anything else. "So maybe they're not waiting for anything." Maybe it's just another way to drive home his incompetence--the eventual 'big reveal', when they rub his nose in the fact they've been living right next door to Scott, the renegade who should be his beta but is setting up his own pseudo-pack instead... and suborning a beta of his own making in the process. "Maybe they just really don't expect us to figure it out."
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Date: 2014-04-01 06:45 am (UTC)With that in mind he waits impatiently for Stiles to parse through the last two weeks for an answer to his question, and for at least some idea if the others are in immediate danger. He shifts restlessly and has to bite back on a growl. Now t hat he knows where Boyd and Erica are (or at least might be) he wants to go there now, wants to kill anyone who dares to get in his way and bring them home. They might have left, but whatever happened after that the bond between them was never severed and they're still his, he can feel it bone deep.
"Scott's been there alone and you've all been there together and in different combinations, then?" he asks when Stiles is finished, refusing to address the issue of Boyd and Erica's location for the moment, because if he does he won't be able to focus on anything else. "So maybe they're not waiting for anything." Maybe it's just another way to drive home his incompetence--the eventual 'big reveal', when they rub his nose in the fact they've been living right next door to Scott, the renegade who should be his beta but is setting up his own pseudo-pack instead... and suborning a beta of his own making in the process. "Maybe they just really don't expect us to figure it out."