new muse, homeless, having Intense App Urges, yadda.

[seared]

Now, that is an idea. I can't say I enjoy the idea of sharing territory, but I'm sure we'll all learn to get along somehow. And few hunters to keep an eye on but not a single Argent among them, that's... well. It sounds like a perfect place to start over, to finally settle down. Rebuild the pack.

I don't think I have to tell you I'll be revisiting the subject more vehemently if you don't get to work, right? No, I didn't think I would.

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Spoons aren't supposed to be. [Upper lift twitches--resisting a snarl.] I'm not.

[seared]

And I am? [ his lips twitch into a grin, but his eyes stay flat and hard. ] Oh, please. Of course you are, telling yourself about how mad uncle Peter killed your sister. How your revenge was justified.

[alphabeta]

It wasn't--

It wasn't about revenge. [Well, maybe a little bit revenge.] You had to be stopped.

[seared]

[ he sighs, cocking on eyebrow. ]

Really? Not a single, solitary bit? [ almost affectionately, now. ] Liar.

And no, in fact I don't think I did. Laura had a responsibility, and she hadn't fulfilled it. I did.

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[He allows the small snarl, now.] She was your niece.

They would have been taken care of. They would have been arrested.

[seared]

She was weak. [ he snarls back this time, some of the unrelenting rage the fire left behind seeping out from behind his normally pleasant mask. ] They murdered our family and left me to burn, and she let them live. An alpha doesn't let something like that fall to the wayside.

And taken to rot in a cell away from real justice? No, I don't think so.

[alphabeta]

She wasn't strong enough yet! She moved us because we were vulnerable and the town was crawling with hunters! We didn't know who'd helped Kate, and she wasn't strong enough to protect the both of us.


That wasn't justice. That was revenge.

[seared]

Tell me, Derek. Do you have any idea what it's like to spend six years trapped inside your own head? Waiting. Trusting when you can finally move a muscle, things will be taken care of.

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She was taking care of it. You killed her because you were selfish. Would it really have stopped with Kate?

[And his mun needs more icons with his Alpha face :\]

[seared]

I killed her because it had to be done. You think I wanted to? [ ...in the moment, yes, but that's the anger talking. ] It would have stopped with every last Argent paying for what they did.

Every last Argent above the age of consent, of course. Unlike them, I don't kill children.