"What do you mean sort of? How can that sort of be Derek?" Malia asked, confused.
"How...how do you know my name? Who are you people?" Derek muttered.
"Uh, we're friends" Scott told him.
"Then why don't I remember you? Where even are we?" Derek questioned.
"Mexico" Stiles stated.
"We really need to get going, it might not be long before those things come back" Braeden explained.
"How are we all going to fit in the jeep, now we've got an extra passenger?" Stiles asked.
"Scott can ride with me for now, and then as soon as we get to the nearest town I'll hotwire you a car" Braeden offered.
"My dad's the Sheriff you know, I don't think he'll be too happy with me driving in a stolen vehicle" Stiles exclaimed.
"Well he's not the Sheriff here...but if it really bothers you that much I'll buy one instead" Braeden sighed.
"Awesome, can we go now?" Katherine insisted.
They carefully lowered Derek into the jeep, who had already fallen asleep, exhausted. Katherine moved around to the back of the jeep and pulled a blanket out and wrapped it around Derek.
"Adorable" Stiles commented as the scene.
"Shut up" Katherine said rolling her eyes.
Later on once Braeden had got them a car; they said their goodbyes and drove off back to Beacon Hills, Scott, Kira, Katherine and Derek in the other car. Derek woke up a few times and asked where they were but fell asleep again quickly after. Soon everyone decided they needed to stop for the night and pulled into a nearby motel.
"Okay, we'll see you guys in the morning" Scott announced as he and Kira turned to walk to their room.
"Uh, what are we going to do about Derek? We can't just leave him in the car?" Katherine complained.
"Which is why he's going to stay in your room" Stiles said with a smug smile, handing her the keys.
"What? Why do I always have to deal with these things?" Katherine whined.
"Because you're the hardest to get mad at" Stiles retorted.
They helped to put Derek onto the bed and left, leaving just Katherine and a comatose Derek.
Katherine sighed as she flopped down onto an armchair in the room, and decided she would have to sleep on it for the night. Bringing her knees up to her chest, she slowly fell asleep.
"What...what's going on?" She heard a voice shout, bringing her out of her slumber.
She slowly opened her eyes to see a very awake teenage Derek staring at her, terrified.
"Um...so this probably seems really weird, but there's a totally good explanation for all of this" Katherine exclaimed.
"Which is?" Derek questioned.
"You've been...de-aged" She replied.
"You're lying" Derek hesitated.
"Oh c'mon, you're a werewolf, you would hear my heart blip if I was lying" Katherine explained.
"I...I don't know what you're talking about" Derek said nervous.
"Sure you do" Katherine said, letting her eyes change to their yellow colour.
"You're a werewolf?" Derek asked, surprised.
"Yeah, most of us are" She told him.
"Where are the others?" He inquired.
"Sleeping probably, seeing as it's three am" Katherine stated.
"Oh...sorry I didn't mean to wake you" He replied.
"You're being awfully calm about the whole de-aging/kidnapping thing" Katherine exclaimed.
"I'm hoping this is all just some weird dream" Derek explained.
"Well then you better go back to sleep, and then who knows maybe you'll wake up" Katherine smirked.
"I doubt it" Derek sighed, laying his head back onto the pillows even so, and Katherine heard his breathing even out a few minutes later.
"So how was he last night?" Stiles asked, once they were nearing Beacon Hills, later that day.
"He was alright, he was just woke up once" She told him.
"He didn't freak out?" Malia inquired.
"Not really" Katherine admitted.
She looked over to where the teenager was sleeping and saw the sweat that was dripping from his face. She quickly raised a hand out to feel his forehead, gasping when she felt how hot he was.
"Stiles, step on it. We need to get him to Deaton's fast" Katherine announced.
Soon they had arrived back in Beacon Hills and drove immediately to the vet's where Scott carefully carried Derek onto Deaton's examination table.
"Wow" Deaton stated, when he saw Derek.
"Wow? Wow as in I've seen this before and know exactly what to do...because that's the wow we're hoping for" Stiles asked.
"I think you might be overestimating my abilities" Deaton admitted.
Katherine slowly intertwined her hand with Derek's as she realised something.
"He's really cold now" Katherine told them.
"Do you think this is permanent?" Scott asked as Deaton examined him.
"I'm not sure if a medical diagnosis is even possible. This is well beyond my experience" Deaton exclaimed.
"So what do we do?" Stiles inquired.
"Until he wakes up again, not much. Might be best to leave him here, he'll be safe here" Deaton explained.
"You mean from Kate?" Katherine questioned.
"If she's alive and she is what you say she is, she won't be able to walk past that gate" Deaton told them.
"Why would she want to do this to him?" Katherine asked.
"Knowing Kate, it won't be for a reason that's good for anyone but her" Deaton exclaimed.
"You guys should probably go home. He doesn't look to be in any danger. So maybe the rest of you should get some sleep? It is a school night, and you all need to start taking care of your lives again" Deaton continued when he saw how tired they were.
"I'm not leaving him" Katherine insisted.
"So not okay with this" Stiles announced.
"Guys...go" Katherine sighed.
"No..." Stiles trailed off.
"Text us if anything happens" Scott told her.
"No, still not okay with it. Not going anywhere...just cause you're stronger than me..." Stiles trailed off.
Katherine rubbed Derek's shoulder comfortingly when he whimpered, obviously having a nightmare.
"Here, you should at least sit" Deaton said, pulling a chair over to her.
"Thanks, Deaton" She smiled, sitting down, but not removing her hand from his and soon fell asleep again, exhausted.
She woke up slowly the next morning, the sun beating down on her. She quickly sat up, realising she had fallen asleep on Derek, and lightly blushed.
"Um, how is he?" She asked Deaton.
"His heart rate is alarmingly high" Deaton admitted.
"He's a lot warmer now" Katherine realised, running her palm down his arm.
"Katherine, I want to try something. Keep holding his hand" Deaton told her, taking out a small scalpel.
He slowly cut his way down Derek's arm, the wound healing up immediately after it had been made.
"That...looked like it healed really fast" Katherine realised.
"Unusually fast" Deaton admitted.
"What does it mean?" Katherine inquired, concerned.
"I'm not sure, can you grab me a syringe from the top shelf?" Deaton asked, as he went over to gather some equipment at the side of the room.
Suddenly the both heard a rustling sound from behind them and turned to see Derek, standing up from the table.
"Derek?" Katherine asked, when she saw he was awake.
He turned to loom up at them both, his eyes burning blue and his claws out.
"Derek, are you alright?" She continued.
"Derek?" Deaton asked, getting alarmed at the way Derek was acting.
"Wait..." Katherine trailed off, realising something was wrong when he started to clutch at his head.
"Can you hear me? Derek?" Deaton inquired.
Suddenly Derek lunged at the pair, his claws slashing in the air as Katherine pushed Deaton backwards, her arm getting sliced in the process. Derek then ran out of the building, Katherine trying to follow behind him.
"No, Katherine! Don't" Deaton said, grabbing her arm.
"I need to go after him!" She replied.
"He's not in his right mind...look what he did to you!" Deaton exclaimed.
"I don't care" Katherine growled, pulling free of his grip.
"Well Derek would care, he wouldn't want you to put yourself in harm's way because of him" Deaton explained.
"Fine! C'mon, we better call Scott and Stiles and tell them what's happened" Katherine told him, getting her phone out.
Katherine groaned as she paced in the vet's awaiting a text from Stiles to tell her where Derek was. Suddenly her phone bleeped and she saw a text telling her he was at the police station. She quickly ran out of the vets and arrived at the police station not long after. She entered the Sheriff's office, and stood beside Scott and Stiles who were getting lectured by the sheriff.
"You guys told me you were camping" The Sheriff sighed.
"Yeah, we were...it was just in Mexico" Stiles mumbled.
"Derek's been aged backwards, he can't remember anything" Scott explained.
"We just need to talk to him" Stiles exclaimed.
"Yeah, well right now he's not talking to anyone" The Sheriff admitted.
"He'll talk to us" Katherine stated.
"Alright, you guys have ten minutes with him" The Sheriff warned, bringing Derek into the room and leaving.
"What's going on?" Derek asked, sitting down.
"We need you to come with us, it's not safe here" Scott told him.
"Why would I go anywhere with you?" Derek questioned.
"There was an accident, okay you lost some memory but we can help get it back" Scott exclaimed.
"How much memory?" He inquired.
"A lot...like 6 years worth" Katherine sighed.
"You can trust us" Scott told him, flashing his Alpha eyes.
"You're an Alpha" Derek realised.
"Yep, and I'm his beta" Katherine explained.
"...Who are you guys? And who's he?" Derek inquired.
"One of the guys keeping you out of jail" Stiles retorted.
"Let us help you" Katherine stated.
"No..." Derek trailed off.
"Okay, dude you almost tore apart two cops back there, you need to listen to us, and that starts with no fangs, no claws, no wolf man, you got that?" Stiles said, exasperated.
"I'm fine as long as it's not on the full moon" Derek argued.
"You still have problems with that?" Scott asked.
"I said I'm fine" Derek replied.
"Alright, so are you coming with us, or not?" Stiles questioned.
"You want me to trust you?...Where's my family?" Derek inquired.
"...There was a fire, and there not here anymore...they're-" Scott was cut off by Katherine.
"Uh, actually could you excuse us for a second? I need to talk to Scott" Katherine exclaimed, ushering for the Sheriff to take Derek outside.
"And then you'll tell me what happened?" Derek asked.
"Uh, yeah" Katherine said, trying to smile reassuringly, as he left the room.
"Okay, so if he thought we weren't lying about something earlier, he definitely does now" Stiles sighed.
"Which is why we're not going to lie" Katherine argued.
"What? Katherine, you know we can't do that" Stiles retorted.
"I'm not lying to him, and I'm not helping you guys if you lie to him either" Katherine told them.
"Oh c'mon, by tomorrow he'll be back to his normal self and he won't even remember this" Stiles exclaimed.
"And what if he does? We can't just tiptoe around what happened to his family!" Katherine stated.
"What if we tell him and he goes crazy? What if he hurts people?" Stiles asked.
"He won't" Katherine replied.
"...Katherine, I don't think this is a good idea" Scott interjected.
"Look you tell one lie, then you have to tell another to cover the first lie up, then again and again until all we tell him is a bunch of lies, then he's really not going to trust us...then he probably we'll go crazy and start hurting people" Katherine argued.
"I'm sorry, Katherine, we can't take that risk" Scott sighed.
"Well then count me out" Katherine said, pulling open the door.
"Wait, what's going on? Where are you going?" Derek questioned when he saw them coming out.
"Uh, Katherine was just leaving...she's uh, got some things she needs to do" Stiles stuttered.
"I'm not going anywhere with you guys if she's not there" Derek told them.
"What? Why?" Scott inquired.
"I don't trust you two...but I do trust her" He explained.
"...Your family, we're not really sure what happened with them" Stiles suddenly blurted out.
"What? What are you talking about?" Derek asked.
"Uh, well you don't really talk about your family much; all we know is there was a fire, right Katherine?" Stiles explained.
"Sure" Katherine sighed.
"Oh..." Derek trailed off, disappointed.
"But we can help you get those memories back Derek...we just need you to come with us" Scott exclaimed.
"...Okay" Derek replied.
"I'm sorry Katherine...I guess I shouldn't have lied to him" Scott sighed.
"Maybe you were right, I mean he does seem calmer now" Katherine replied.
"Look we saved Derek a lot of unnecessary pain, we'll figure this out in a day or two, Derek goes back to being his normal grumpy self" Stiles exclaimed.
"I don't like lying to him" Scott explained.
"But he's Derek Hale, Scott, he might be a kid but it's still him" Stiles retorted.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Katherine asked accusingly.
"I just pointing out his obvious anger management problems" Stiles stated.
"Alright, take him to my house and don't let him out of your sight" Scott ordered.
"I'm going to go talk to who we should have talked to before" Scott exclaimed.
"Ugh, I hate that guy" Stiles groaned.
"Okay, so we're just going to wait for Scott. We're going to sit quietly. We're not going to call or talk to anyone" Stiles explained, when they walked into Scott's house.
"Don't you think that's a bit harsh?" Katherine retorted.
"Katherine can we not argue about how to babysit while he's around" Stiles exclaimed.
"Hey! I'm not a baby" Derek stated.
"Dude, you're like 16" Stiles replied.
"So? You're only just 18...and how old are you?" Derek asked Katherine.
"16" She stated.
"Huh" He smirked.
"What are you guys doing here?" Mr McCall questioned when he saw them.
"Ah!...Are you getting taller?" Katherine inquired.
"We're waiting for Scott" Derek told him.
"Yeah, so am I. We're supposed to have dinner, I bought extra, you hungry?" He asked.
"Yeah" Derek exclaimed.
"No. We're not hungry" Stiles argued.
"No, I'm starving" Derek retorted.
"Neither of us are hungry. Thanks though" Stiles told him.
"Okay, well if you're not hungry your friend can still eat with us. What's your name?" Mr McCall questioned.
"Miguel" Stiles stated, pointing at him, making Katherine and Derek give him a weird look.
"My cousin Miguel. From Mexico..." Stiles stuttered.
Suddenly Mr McCall started asking a question in Spanish and Katherine almost face palmed realising there cover was about to be blown when Derek surprisingly answered him.
"Fantastic. Egg roll?" Mr McCall inquired.
"Hell yeah" Derek laughed.
"So...Derek can speak Spanish..." Katherine trailed off.
"You think you know a guy" Stiles stated, joining the others at the table.
"So, uh, Miguel, what did you say your last name was?" Mr McCall asked.
"Oh, it's Juarez. Cinqua... Tiago" Stiles stuttered.
"That's a mouthful, how do you spell that?" He questioned.
"Phonetically" Stiles replied.
"Mr McCall, you're an FBI agent?" Derek suddenly asked.
"He's low level. Very low level, doesn't even have a voice" Stiles told him, earning a glare from Mr McCall.
"So you investigate murders?" Derek asked.
"Sometimes, if they're a federal crime" He explained.
"What about fires?" Derek inquired.
"Oh my God, I wonder where Scott is. Shouldn't Scott be here by now? I'm going to call him" Stiles said, pulling out his phone.
"What kind of fires are you asking about?" Mr McCall questioned.
"Do you know anything about the Hale family?" Derek inquired.
"Well it was obviously arson...I mean that poor kid..." Mr McCall trailed off.
"What do you mean?" Derek asked.
"Well it can't be easy for that Hale kid not having any family" Mr McCall stated.
"Uh, would you excuse me for a second? I need to have a word with Stiles" Derek said, pulling Stiles up the stairs.
"What was that about?" Mr McCall asked.
"Um, nothing..." Katherine trailed off as they heard a door slam.
"I'm sure they're fine" Katherine continued.
Suddenly a loud bang erupted and Katherine knew from experience that meant he was throwing Stiles into a wall.
"I'll be right back" Katherine said, running up the stairs.
"Okay, I'm going to get him...phone's right downstairs, I'll just call him" She heard Stiles mutter as he opened the door.
"Make sure he doesn't go anywhere!" Stiles informed her.
"Hey, wait! When are you coming back?" She asked.
"Look I've got to find Scott and right now he's not picking his phone up...so...I'll be back by 7" Stiles told her.
"That's an hour!" Katherine exclaimed.
"Oh c'mon, I'm sure you can keep him entertained" Stiles winked.
"You're a sick guy, you know that?" Katherine said unimpressed, as Stiles walked down the stairs.
Sighing, Katherine decided it was time to face the music and walked into the bedroom.
Author's Notes: Sorry this chapter took so long guys! I've been really busy this week, but now it's the holiday so hopefully I can pick the pace up again. I should finish this episode off by the next chapter and then I'm thinking of doing a Halloween episode, maybe a flashback chapter? Just something really cute and fluffy;) Tell me what you think about this in the reviews!