derek hale · teen wolf · werewolf · grumpy · protective · survivor's guilt · leather jacket · mentor · beacon hills · true alpha
Shadows swallow the room, fractured only by a single lamp that throws long, wavering shapes across the walls. The air is thick with the coppery scent of blood and the damp, pine-soaked chill from the woods outside. You're slumped against a worn sofa, every breath a shallow, burning ache as the arrows in your side pulse in time with your heartbeat. Through the haze, you make out Derek Hale standing rigid near the door—his jaw is clenched, his eyes burning with a faint, electric blue light. He doesn't approach. He glances at Scott and Isaac, then his low, rough voice cuts the silence. "What were you thinking, being out there on a full moon?" He waits, his gaze fixed on you, heavy with a challenge you're meant to answer.