Derek doesn't have the heart to tell the young girl that she is trespassing, and to get the hell off his property. Nor does he need his werewolf senses to know that she is crying. To properly describe is uncontrollably sobbing. Derek isn't heart less after. So he watches, at first, and he studies the girl. She looks familiar but he simply can't place where he has seen her before. "Hey are you okay?" Derek calls out startling the girl.
"I'm sorry I'll go." Spencer goes to grab her bag, but is stopped by the male.
"You don't have to go. I just want to know if you are alright? You shouldn't be out here alone. It's not safe." Derek reasons.
Spencer quickly rubs at her eyes trying to stop the puffiness that she is sure has caused both her eyes and cheeks to grow from the tears. "I just needed a break. I'm Spencer by the way."
"Derek. Why don't you walk back to the house with me and I'll give you a ride back to school. I'm serious you shouldn't be out here." Derek offers.
Spencer takes a step back and thinks for a minute. Years of living in Rosewood under the rule of A has taught her to be skeptical of anyone who offers you kindness. Its been her experience that they always have a hidden agenda. Of course she is also a female, and she was taught never to get into cars with strangers. She quickly reasons that if he wanted to hurt he has had ample time, and lets be honest they are in the middle of the woods he could have killed her ten times over by now. So she takes him up on his offer. "You're not a serial killer or anything right?" Spencer jokes.
"Nope, I can promise that I am not a serial killer." Derek offers her a smile, and when Derek smiles he looks like a different person. A friendly person.
When Spencer and Derek arrive at the partially burnt down house there are cop cars everyone and a body is being pulled up from Derek's lawn. "Not a serial killer huh?"
Derek rolls his eyes. He knows that this is all the doing of Scott and Stiles. He would visit them soon. He is about to respond to Spencer when he sees her eyes widen, and her breathing pick up. She is in a panic, and it has nothing to do with him.
"My God you will do anything to pin a dead body on won't you Wilden? Let's see couldn't get me for Alison, Ian, Maya, or Garett." Spencer is the cop, Wilden's face in no time. It's not hard to figure out that the two of them have a history.
"Why am I not surprise to find Spencer Hasting in the vicinity of a dead body?" Wilden taunts the girl before that he knows on so well. "Unfortunately I'm not here for you. I'm here for your new buddy over here. Derek Hale, you are under arrest.
"What are you even doing here?" Spencer head turns rather quickly to the other man. "You know you can't question me without an adult present, or did the suspension and relocation not teach you that lesson the first time."
"Spencer Hastings the name practically rolls out the mouth. The question is what are you doing here, so far from Rosewood? What's the matter Spencer did your family finally have enough of all the embracement that you caused them ?" Wilden gets his dig in and takes great pride as a tear rolls down Spencer's face.
Derek looks on the cop with disgust an image that is displayed in his face as he rolls his head away and snorts. He's never had a problem with the police, but this one cop he was not going to like. Honestly it was sickening watching him, a grown man, take enjoyment out of breaking a sixteen year old girl.
No Spencer did not need to be reminded of much that she has disappointed her family. She is more then aware of that fact. No she does not need to be reminded why she was sent across the country to live with relatives that she has only seen a handful times. Her time in Radly, and very public melt down were the causes. Finally she does not need to be reminded of all the mistakes that she has made, and one bad choice after another that lead to the pile of secrets that she was carrying. She was perfect like Melissa.
"No ones here to protect you now are they Spencer? No Toby to lie for you. No friends to keep your secrets. No big brother to play hero. You are all alone. And your mine." The last part is said in Spencer's ear with such malice that is causes her to shiver. It's right then and there that she doesn't she is going to be a victim. Not Wilden's not anybody's so she hits him. More like punches him and knocks him on his ass. She is certain that if they were alone Wilden would have taken his own shot at her. "That's assault on a police officer you're under arrest Spencer."
Derek looks at Spencer impressed by her bravery. Not many people would have the guts to do what she did, and she did it well. So Derek laugh and he takes pride when he sees that his laughter is annoying the pompous cop.
"Not like this is the first time I've been in hand cuffs." Spencer scoffs. If Wilden even thought for one moment that he was scaring then he had another thing coming. "I did prove one thing though didn't I?"
"And what's that?" Wilden questions as he place Spencer in cuffs.
"I can protect myself." When Stiles arrives Derek learns that Spencer is actually Scott's cousin, and he realizes that is why he recognized her. She looks a lot like her aunt Melissa.
As Derek and Spencer sit in the back of the cop car he comes to the conclusion that while Spencer maybe capable to protecting herself she wasn't going to have to because if she didn't realize it he was going to protect her. We would protect her from a lot more then idiot cops. He would protect her from all the things that went bump in the night in Beacon Hills.