everyonelives | there's something due any day

What kind of bad feeling? The next hit?

( It steps in closer to Malia. )

Maybe. Apparently a lot of heavy hitters are going to be there in the next few weeks.

[But she doesn't know much more than that.]

Do they need us?

( Most of the time, this is his own doing, but he has not stopped in one place in a while. That expunged FBI file did not help matters. )

[She shakes her head.]

I don't think so. So far, a lot of the heavy hitters are on our side.

[But that might change.]

Just sit tight. Allison still thinks New Orleans is going to be a target, so it might be better for you to just stay where you are.

We'll be here, then. Help the local wolves. Let me know if anything changes.

( It does feel good to not be mired by his power being stripped, but the impending danger still lingers. )

I will. Stay safe.

[And unless there's something else, she'll go back to inform Scott and Allison that Derek is okay.

Once he hangs up, Malia looks back with a nod. "So. Bayou?"]

You too.

( He hangs up. )

I want to see the Bayou.

( He pulls up Hayley's contact for a quick: Thank you )

[Malia leads the way out to the car as Hayley responds:]

I take it everything worked out with Freya?

( Can Malia drive since she's familiar with the bayou. Texting and driving also does not mix. )

It worked out. Everything is in working order. Malia's taking us to the bayou.

[Yes, Malia will drive.]

Glad to hear it. I'll see you there.

See you there.

( He thought maybe she'd stay back in the city, but seeing her again. That'll be nice. )

[If Hope were in town, that might be the case. But when she's not and Hayley needs a break from the Mikaelson drama, she retreats to the Bayou to be with her pack. It feels more at home than the Abattoir, than the French Quarter. And, honestly, it's the place where she can most be herself.

Derek arrives and a lot of the first hour he's here is function - finding a place for him to sleep, introducing him to the other wolves he doesn't know, letting him get accustomed to the space. But after dinner passes and the wolves settle into their little fire circles for the evening, she makes her way closer, offering a beer to him.]

How're you settling in?

( The bonfire is something, it's like a real celebration. No sign of anything heavy coming, just jovial attitudes, free-flowing beer and liquor, dancing... It's a party. It's not what Derek does and he looks out of place sitting on his own.

He accepts the beer and moves over on the log he'd perched on. )

Thanks. ( How is he settling in. He looks down into the bottle, nodding. ) Easy. Found a bed. Everyone is very welcoming here.

[She nods, because it's true.]

Well, you're not a vampire. They get a much different welcome.

[Unless they're Josh. That being said.]

But yeah. Around here, wolves are a pretty rare breed, and this pack in particular spent a lot of their lives trapped as wolves thanks to a curse, so every time we get a chance to celebrate, we take it.

Vampires and werewolves, they don't mix.

( It was only recently that he learned vampires were an actuality. )

You go hard. ( Is that a keg stand? ) Were you also trapped in that curse?

Not the first time.

[She wasn't in New Orleans at the time. She was crashing her parent's boat and triggering her werewolf curse.]

But my daughter's father and I had a mild disagreement about how we were parenting our two year-old so he cursed the pack a second time, and I was part of that one.

Your...

( So. )

Klaus. The vampire that - hybrid that helped save me. He cursed you into remaining a wolf in the bayou because of coparenting. And you two are. Fine. Now.

Yeah.

[Now that you've made her think about how that sounds.]

We worked it out. And honestly, Klaus has mellowed a lot in recent years. Still prone to momentary fits of dramatic but way less scheming and revenge plots.

Momentary fits of the dramatic. You - were cursed. ( He needs a sip from his beer now. But, It's not like he doesn't have a similar story. ) My ex kidnapped me and turned me back into my teenage self. And that was years after seducing me as a teenager and then burning my family's home down.

[She winces because that is a lot.]

Yeah, I was cursed, but if Klaus really was pissed at me, it would have been worse.

[Much worse. Klaus' reputation is what it is for a reason.]

That sounds really rough though. Is she still around?

No, she actually died. She - became a werejaguar and returned, and after kidnapping me, kidnapped my alpha and brainwashed him. ( He winces, taking another sip. ) She was killed shortly after that. And my Alpha, Scott, was saved. That was when I unlocked my full wolf form.

[She smirks.]

Sounds like where you're from is just as crazy as things around here.

I wish that was my only ex that did something like that. I sympathize.

( And he's worked through those deep deep issues. )

[She raises an eyebrow at him.]

There was more than one?

I - did not have luck in that department. A new English teacher literally drew me under her spell while making Druidic sacrifices in the night.

( Braeden was his best relationship, but that just fizzled. )

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