Becoming Ashes

Life dealt me a shitty hand, but I'll be damned if I didn't shuffle that hand and try again. Indie Laura Hale from Teen Wolf. Canon Divergent obviously. I'm fully caught up with the show. Please read rules before interacting!

[liljeepthief]

Eli began to smile, feeling like this woman really wasn't lying to her. Plus he had gotten the slight hint of her scent that made him think of his dad. Not that he was too good with his wolfy senses. So he wrapped his pinkie with hers and did their little promise.

"Actually no. Dad drives a black SUV. This isn't his Jeep but he is fixing it up for someone." Eli got into the Jeep and turned it on, it struggling for a moment before coming to life. "Thanks. Dad would kill me. So would gramps but he's not as strict as dad is."

[bvrnedalpha]

Eli started to smile and there it was, the definite hints of her brother in the way his nose wrinkled just a little bit like Derek's did when he smiled. Eli wrapped his pinkie around hers and Laura's smile brightened, giving their joined fingers a shake.

"Oh really now?" Laura sniffed the inside of the jeep, trying to pick out the different scents and she sneezed into the crook of her elbow at the scent of magic she picked up. "Mm, a magic user huh?" Laura hummed, curiously before snorting quietly as the jeep struggled to start up. "So. You're not supposed to be driving it, but you still do? What a little rebel Der raised."

[battle-scars]

All the nervous feelings Issac had felt seemed to vanish as the woman introduced herself as Derek's sibling. He felt a rush a happy because he already got along with Cora so Laura shouldn't be too different and it wasn't like she gave off those creepy vibes that Peter did.

"Oh I've seen them and I actually like when he smiles like that not that he does it a lot but it happens."

[bvrnedalpha]

Isaac's scent went sweet with happiness and Laura flashed a small smile at him, cocking her head. He smelled a lot like her brother so clearly he was a beta that Derek spent a fair bit of time with. But she also smelled Cora and Peter on him and it made her chest tight, blinking a little.

"Derek's smiles always were rare after the fire." She tsked softly and shook her head. "I was hoping that he'd smile more but..." Laura trailed off, lifting her shoulders in a half shrug. "Aaaaaanyway. Bitten or born wolf?"

[firelemonade]

teen wolf aesthetic: the hales (laura hale - derek hale - cora hale)

“I’m a predator. I don’t have to be a killer”

[threedayduration]

Hale // Parrish // Stilinski --> Season 4

A deputy,         a sheriff,                  and a werewolf walk into a bar.

[rarepairheathen]

It's been over a decade since OUAT premiered and how is it she looks exactly the same???

[televisiongifs]

MEGHAN ORY as RUBY LUCAS a.k.a. RED RIDING HOOD ONCE UPON A TIME (2011–2018)

[bvrnedalpha]

liljeepthief·:

“Yes to Der.” It was an odd nickname but he did feel like he had heard someone use it before. “Okay but you have to promise me you won’t end up lying to me and stabbing me in the back.” Like his uncle Peter. Well not like his uncle ever did anything to him, but he had seen the older wolf do it to his dad multiple times.

“You also have to promise me that you won’t tell dad I used the Jeep.” He huffed out still not seeing what was so dangerous about said Jeep. “Come, it’s this way.” He gestured for her to follow as he lead her to the old Jeep parked not too far from where he’d been cornered by her.

Laura brightened up when Eli confirmed her suspicion, and her heart skipped a beat at the thought of getting to see Derek again, to see how he’d grown in the years since she’d apparently been dead and gone. Her stomach also swooped with nerves, she hoped he didn’t blame her for leaving him, that guilt was going to eat at her for a bit, provided this wasn’t temporary. “Don’t worry, pinkie promise.” Laura extended her hand out to Eli, pinkie held out as she smiled.

Laura mouthed the word jeep before tsking quietly. “Derek drives a jeep? Huh, that’s unexpected.” The last she knew he was driving their father’s camaro and he wouldn’t have dreamed to be driving a jeep of all things. Laura’s eyebrows lifted at the sight of the jeep and her confusion only grew. “Well. I won’t tell him you stole it kid, it’s our little secret.” Laura had a lot of questions, tacking them onto the ever growing list already. The jeep looked like it had seen better days, the door creaking weakly when she opened it to climb in.

[bvrnedalpha]

battle-scars·:

Isaac froze, not out of fear or anything of the sort but because such a gorgeous woman was right in front of him. She even began pinching his cheeks to which he allowed it even if it did make him blush. “Wait, Der? D-do you mean Derek?” He was sure about it especially because he could see the resemblance.

Isaac froze, his heartbeat rabbiting for a moment; but it wasn’t out of fear and she grinned at him, pleased. His cheeks flushed beneath her fingers and Laura’s smile only brightened. “Yup! My darling, grouchy little brother.” Laura popped the P and shifted her weight, tipping her head to the side. “He’s about your height, grumpy brows but whenever he smiles he’s got these cute little bunny teeth going on.”

[bvrnedalpha]

papasourwolf·:

There it was the line again. She use to tell him that so many times when they’d first moved to New York and she found him on the floor crying how he wished he’d just never been born. She’d always hug him so tight until he stopped crying and calmed down even making him some hot chocolate afterwards. She’d wrap him in a soft blanket so tight he needed her help to get out. It always helped at least to get him to level out. Even right at that moment he felt like a pup who needed affection, but her death had hit hard and he had never really let himself heal from it. No, he always needed to be strong for the pack and while he had gotten help for everything, her death had not been one of them.

“I’m….I’m still sorry. I’ve always felt like it had all been my fault. That I got to live and you guys didn’t.” Derek then froze and looked frantically around. “Eli….he’s all alone. I left Eli alone.” Without thinking twice Derek fully shifted into a wolf and took off like his life depended on it.

Laura smiled at Derek, squeezing his shoulder gently. She’d long since learned the best way to stop these terrible moments; these moments where Derek was tearing himself apart mentally, heart broken about the fire. She held her brother close, comforting him gently with warm hands stroking up and down his back slowly. “It’s not your fault. I told you, it’s never been your fault Der.”

Laura pulled back to cup his cheeks, looking at him with a soft, apologetic expression. “I’m sorry I left you alone Derek. I’m so sorry. I should have never left you alone like that. But don’t you ever blame yourself for this. For any of this.” Then suddenly Derek was pulling away from her, saying something about an Eli, and then he was shifting; changing fully into a wolf. A wolf that looked just like their mother’s, and Laura’s chest hurt.

[bvrnedalpha]

papasourwolf·:

Derek ignored the way his skin felt sensitive to the touch or how the bark felt under his skin. All he cared was that he was with his sister. He didn’t even think twice about trusting that it was her. It smelled, looked, and sounded like her. Sure he was curious as to what happened with her and even himself, but right at that moment he didn’t care too much about it.

“I should be the one sorry.” Derek pulled away to look at her and god the tears began to sting his eyes. “I should have come with you. I shouldn’t have let you come alone. We could have fought him together yet I just let you die. Laura, I was so stupid.”

Derek was older now, his beard streaked with the start of grey and Laura sobbed with relief, clutching onto Derek. She didn’t need to question it, didn’t even think twice about it not being Derek. Laura knew her brother and would know him blind. She pulled back a little, looking at Derek with tears in her eyes.

“Oh shut up. Don’t you even start blaming yourself asshole.” Laura scrubbed her tears away and punched him lightly in the shoulder. “You couldn’t have known. Neither of us could. Don’t tell me you’ve been beating yourself up over that all this time.” Laura huffed, pulling Derek back in for another tight hug. “You could have come with me and he could have killed you. Or killed us both. And then where would we be then?”

[bvrnedalpha]

papasourwolf·:

The last thing Derek remembered were being engulfed in Jordan’s flames, sacrificing himself to save the pack. He didn’t expect to wake up with a chill and hearing an old familiar voice. Maybe he was dead because the voice he heard sounded too much like Laura.

With a groan Derek’s eyes fluttered open to see sky and trees. It prompted Derek to sit up and rub at his face and when he opened them again he noticed he was not only naked but covered in ash and soot. He let out another groan before he turned only to freeze at the sight of his sister.

“Laura?” His eyes grew huge at the sight of his sister before he threw himself at her in a tight embrace.

Laura shivered a little, the bark rough on her skin as she sat up, twisting a little to look at her brother. Her brother. Derek was alive, he was here, he was older, but he was still right here.

Derek’s skin was covered in soot, ashes from what remained of his clothes presumably, and Laura had so many questions. How many years had she been dead apparently? How many years had she missed out on? She’d left her brother alone, to carry on by himself. Laura’s chest ached, her spine ached, everything hurt like parts of her were being burned from the inside out.

But then Derek threw himself at her and Laura sobbed as she caught him, burying her face into his dark hair. “Derek. I’m so, so sorry.“ She clutched onto her brother, holding him tight.

[bvrnedalpha]

@ofhowlingwaves

Laura squinted at the wolf, trying to place where she knew him from, her memory still a bit spotty from dying and waking back up from being dead.

"You're....Morgan, right?"

Sniffing the other man, Laura nodded - slowly. "Yeah, okay I remember you, you're the one that finally drug Derek out of his slump and got him to go on a date with you."

[bvrnedalpha]

liljeepthief·:

Eli thought about getting the sheriff involved, Not to arrest her but to prove she was who she said she was and not lying. Though she surprised him with how excited she got about Cora. Though it did make him narrow his eyes at her. Maybe she really was telling the truth since he remembered the stories his dad told him about Cora. How he thought he’d been dead. There were also the stories about Laura about how she was an alpha and the one that would be taking over the pack when the time was right. Though that never happened. It seemed like everything was adding up even the mentioning of the scar which was the area his father told him that she got slashed in half.

“So what if I say I do believe you and I take you home to prove it to my dad?”

Laura still couldn’t believe it, that Cora was still alive, and that they had another member of their family that hadn’t been lost to flame. One thing at a time though, Brazil was really far away and Derek was here in Beacon Hills by the sound of it, from what this teenager was saying. Laura ran a hand through her dark hair and let the red fade from her eyes as she looked at Eli. He wasn’t familiar, though the soft, almost sad eyes definitely made her think of her brother. Could he be Derek’s son? If that was the case - how long had Laura been dead? How did she come back?

“To Der?” Confirmation. Eli was his son, and she’d clearly been dead a long time. Because he was at least fifteen.

“If you believe me, I want nothing more than to see my brother again.”

[bvrnedalpha]

liljeepthief·:

Eli shrunk in on himself because seriously who was this woman and why was she talking to him? She did, however, try to calm him down. Not like that worked seeing as how intimidating she was to him. Then the name was dropped and both of Eli’s brows shot up. “No, you can’t be. Dad said aunt Laura died years ago. The only aunt I have now is aunt Cora but she’s living in Brazil. S-so stop lying about it. Who are you really?”

Laura tsked softly and pat her pockets uselessly. “I don’t have a way to prove it, other than going to the police and having them fingerprint me for you kid. I don’t have an ID anymore.” Laura ran a hand through her dark hair, wrinkling her nose. “Dead? Jesus, well that explains the scarring.” She muttered before brightening up, eyebrows lifting in surprise. “Cora is still alive? God, I thought we lost her too.” Her shoulders slumped a little in relief and she huffed. “I’m Laura, seriously. Pinkie promise, I’m not lying.” Laura flashed her eyes, vivid red at the boy. “Derek’s my little brother.”

[bvrnedalpha]

liljeepthief·:

Eli nearly jumped out of his skin when an unfamiliar person not only got up all in his business but also threw him question after question. He was too nervous to even notice how she smelled like his dad. All he thought was he needed to find a way to book it out of there. Not like he could get his legs to move with how terrified he was of this woman.

“I-I d-don’t know w-what you’re t-t-talking about.” Eli’s green eyes shifted as he looked for an opening to flee. Then she asked who he was and his eyes were back on her. “E-Eli Hale. Well Eli is short for Elijah. W-why do you wanna know? Actually how do you even know my d-dad’s name?”

Laura wrinkled her nose, looking the young wolf over, eyebrows furrowing. She couldn’t place the other scent that helped make up the boy’s scent. But Derek’s scent was all over him, the same earthy smell that made up her brother’s was present on him. Just like that however, his scent went bitter and acrid with fear and Laura huffed.

“Calm down pup. I’m not going to hurt you.” She waved a hand lightly, straightening up and crossing arms across her chest. “Elijah...Hale?” Laura’s expression softened a little and she blinked, eyebrows furrowing more for a moment. “Derek’s my brother. I’m Laura Hale.”

[bvrnedalpha]

@battle-scars

"Oh aren't you cute, you must be Der's first beta, Isaac right?" Laura put her hands on her hips, smiling wryly up at the blonde; his messy curls falling onto his forehead. "You're adorable, I think I'm going to keep you." She reached up, pinching his cheek lightly with a warm, bright smile.

[bvrnedalpha]

@papasourwolf

Waking up on a tree in the woods wasn't Laura's idea of a thrilling time, she was a werewolf; who'd spent a lot of time in these woods. But she was even more confused to wake up naked, a scar bisecting her middle.

Pressing hands to her middle, Laura sat up, groaning low in her throat.

The second - and even more confusing thing - was waking up next to a man that smelled like Derek, but was clearly years older than she remembered him. The corners of his eyes had faint lines, smile lines and his beard had grey showing in it already and her throat hurt, like it was full of smoke.

"Derek?" She croaked out, reaching a tentative hand outwards to the other.