A/N: So, originally this was just one chapter and I thought for sure it would just never be done, but then I realized it had enough material for 2, so I just split it up. So I apologize for that abrupt change at the end. Please forgive me.

"Hey there sunshine, how are you today?" Cora was greeted by the sight of her best friend entering the room with an armful of flowers, candies, and "A dog?" Erica shoved the stuffed animal into Cora's hands as she dropped everything else into the bed with the girl. "Shut up. It was the closest thing to a wolf I could find." Cora traced the ear of the dog with her fingertip silently. After a few moments, Erica leaned over the bed's railing and embraced Cora, giving her a tight hug, "Seriously, how are you doing?"

Erica drug a wooden chair to Cora's bedside, sitting down and holding one of the girl's hands with her own. Cora stared blankly into space for a moment before biting her lip. "Cora?" Erica's tone was soft, calming to Cora after hearing nothing but strange men's voices questioning her and nurses being so sweet she swore she slipped into a diabetic coma. She understood they were just trying to be nice and make her feel better, but all it did was make Cora feel irritated and want to leave.

"I'm as good as I can be under the circumstances." Cora looked up at her best friend, "Will you tell me what happened?" "I actually was going to ask you-" "No, I mean, will you tell me who lived and who didn't? They won't tell me anything because they're afraid it will do more damage than good to my health." "Well, maybe they're right, you know-" "I'm a werewolf, Erica. Remember? I'm practically completely healed, the doctors are pretty freaked out by it, but they're keeping me on lock-down because of my mental health.

Cora's eyes flashed a sense of what Erica understood as rage, but the sensation faded quickly, taking the mood back to a grim one. "I don't know if I should.." "Please? I need to know." Erica sighed, deeply conflicted with easing her best friend's worries but causing new ones at the same time. "If I tell you, you have to promise me you'll try to stay calm." "I promise." As Erica began to tell Cora what was left of the house and the zero leads the police have, Cora felt her heart sink as she was overwhelmed with a rush of sadness. "Four of you guys made it out.." Cora looked up, "Who else?"

"Peter, Derek, and your mom." Cora's heart started beating rapidly at the news of her mother's survival. "Peter and Talia are here in the hospital somewhere, but Derek escaped yesterday. No one's seen him since." Cora was relieved her brother made it too. Hell, she was even happy to hear Peter was okay, but this happiness was very short lived. "Wait, Laura? Where's Laura?" Cora's voice cracked as the last word left her mouth. Erica's head dropped as she told Cora her sister didn't make it. When she looked back up from their hands, Cora had began to cry, staring blankly at the wall again. Erica lifted Cora's hand to her face and held it to her cheek.

The sudden heat from the blonde's cheek woke Cora from her daze, "Thank you for being here." Cora smiled lightly,before pulling her hand free and getting up from the bed. "Well, I'm gonna take a shower, I still smell like smoke," Cora's face was grim as she spoke of the fire, "You're welcome to stay until I'm done though." Erica laughed, "Yes, because seeing my best friend naked is exactly what I aspire to." Cora chuckled as she started to undress, "Uh, well, that's my cue. I'll call you okay?" Erica averted her eyes as she quickly stood up and walked to the door, "Hang in there, okay?" Cora smiled to herself as she entered the bathroom and turned on the water.

"What do you mean 'something was screwed in'?" Derek stepped towards the window and traced his fingers along the edge of the shutters, feeling the small holes that had recently been drilled into the wood. "Did you guys have something on your window?" Isaac asked as he looked around the bottom of the house, trying to find whatever was taken from the window. "No, nothing."

Derek made his way to each window on the first floor of the house, all of them having the same holes as the first. As he approached the last window and found the holes, Derek's rage reached its boiling point. "This was no accident." Derek's claws were beginning to extend as he spoke through gritted teeth. "I have to talk to Cora." Before Isaac or Scott could protest, Derek took off again, shooting through the woods faster than both of the beta wolves.

Scott and Isaac were trailing Derek, they could still see him through the trees but there was no catching him. In a short time they were back at the hospital, just as they were a few hours ago. "I'm going back inside my room, you two go through the front. I'll come get you when I find out where Cora is." Derek climbed back into his room and immediately stripped down, hiding his clothes and laying in the bed, just as the door opened.

"What do you mean he's gone?!" Sheriff Stilinski burst into the room with two deputies close behind. Derek shot up from the bed, "What's going on?!" Derek's face was shocked and confused as he jerked the blanket up over his half naked body. "What are you doing in my room?!" "I..uh..I.." Sheriff Stilinski's face turned bright red as he turned to face his deputies. "Deputy Parrish said that you were no longer in the room, but clearly-" "Clearly I'm still in the room." Derek looked down, "and in my underwear. So if you kind officers would please leave me alone, that would be great," he said with a condescending smile on his face.

"Right, uh, sorry Derek." Sheriff Stilinski turned around and ushered his deputies out of the room, shutting the door just before he slapped Parrish in the back of the head and mumbled "Idiots.." Derek waited a few moments before approaching the door and seeing that Stilinski had relinquished the officers of their watch. Derek crossed back to the bed and pulled his jeans out from underneath as Scott and Isaac walked into the room.

"What are you two doing?" Derek rushed to shut the door and make sure no one saw the two boys enter his room. "Stiles' dad said we could come in now that you're awake," Isaac said with a confused look on his face. Derek's face flooded with relief as he put on a shirt and his shoes. "Okay, I heard some nurses talking. They spread us out in case whoever started the fire decided to come back. Peter and Cora are somewhere on the 3rd floor, my mom on the 5th. I need to find Cora first." Derek walked towards the door and motioned for the boys to follow.