The Impossible Future
Muse: The Feels people...the feels
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He doesn't have a specific name or title. He isn't known as Master or Doctor. He is merely himself, a person whose been given the weight of four whole worlds (and a few galaxies worth) of responsibility thrust upon him. And he's mostly alone. Well, that's not quite right he isn't alone he's just without the person he wants most. Emotionally he is alone.
Derek Hale leans against the door frame of the Tardis and stares out into the stars. Behind him, Jackson Whittmore fiddles with the controls taking extra care to read the instructions with Scott McCall. Issac Lahey leans against the guard rail tossing a foam football up in the air and catching it. It's the four of them now. Everyone else is gone.
It's hard to believe that Stiles is gone. He isn't exactly where Stiles is or when. He wonders if he's dead, if he'd been killed the nice way, the polite way. Weeping Angels, Derek thinks, are worse than anything he has ever faced and there is nothing the Doctor can do.
Because the Doctor is gone and Derek and the others are looking, always looking. Although Derek wonders if the Doctor wants to be found, if he wants the Tardis if he wants the life back.
If Derek finds him and begs for his help...he isn't sure what the Doctor would do, depending on the particular Doctor he finds. Early incarnations of the Doctor had looked at Derek with disdain and disgust, sadness and shame. Derek had never understood before but after it happened after the war...
He knows now, knows why the eleventh incarnation had told Stiles that it had to be him. Stiles had made Derek strong as a boy and the adventure had ingrained in him the rules. Once it is written in stone, once you know its supposed to happen you cannot change it. You cannot change a fixed point in time no matter how much you want to. Not for loved ones (his family, River, Stiles and Lydia) not for the betterment of the world.
And he hates that he knows this. Hates that this is what his life has now become. Derek Hale, age 35. With his rag-tag of companions-his pack, he scours the universe and time itself looking for his Doctor, trying to find some way to find Stiles and to rescue the others if he can. If it's allowed.
"Hey, I think we've got something!" Jackson calls from the control panel. He's grinning from ear to ear and Scott, whose hair is newly buzz cut rubs at his new stubbly head with an agitated hand. "I think we got something."
"What is it?" Issac has tossed the foam ball aside and now leans over Jackson and Scott's shoulders to peer at the screen. He groans, obviously disappointed at whatever it is he's seen. "Oh. Oh seriously?"
"What is it?"
"We need to refuel." Scott says. "And apparently Jackson has decided to take us to Cardiff."
"I hate Cardiff." Issac mutters.
"You hate everything."
Derek wonders why he's decided to take his pack when all they can do is either stare longingly at each other (on Issac's part because Scott, despite being over his first and only love Allison has somehow missed the fact that Issac is desperately in love with him) or continuously argue with one another over absolutely nothing (Jackson is the prissiest person Derek has ever in his life met, prissier than his sister had ever been and more argumentative than Peter.) But when he wonders how it would have been, in the Tardis by himself, he knows that the loneliness would have driven him to madness.
"So, off to Cardiff?" He asks, stepping back inside and shutting the door securely. "Is there nowhere else we can go, Jackson?"
"Well nowhere half as convenient."
"Someone is totally in love with the Captain." Issac teases.
"Sorry, but no. I'm more of a ladies man..."
"Toshiko Sato isn't interested and when exactly are we going?" Scott asks. He's sidled close to Issac who preens at the closeness. Scoot, of course, doesn't notice. "Last time we were there it was 2005."
"A week after the last goodbye, I think." Jackson looks up from the controls, all trace of arrogance gone from his handsome face. He eyes Derek for an agonizing moment. "That okay with you, Alpha."
He doesn't have a specific name or title. He isn't known as Master or Doctor. He is merely himself, a person whose been given the weight of four whole worlds (and a few galaxies worth) of responsibility thrust upon him. And he's mostly alone. Well, that's not quite right he isn't alone he's just without the person he wants most. Emotionally he is alone.
In the universe he's known by some as The Alpha. It isn't a name he cares for but its a name that works for now. He doesn't want the universe to know who Derek Hale is. Eventually he wants to go back, wants to live out his life quietly without pasts ghosts from different worlds following him. This is a future he wants with Stiles and his pack, his whole pack (Lydia obviously included.) As soon as he finds the Doctor, as soon as he gets Stiles and Lydia back is when he'll use his name again.
"Sure."
TBC...
Muse: This is the far future for Derek (he was twenty-three in the latter half of the first chapter) twelve years after the first chapter of the story. Stiles is lost due to Weeping Angels probably, Derek himself isn't so sure. Lydia is also missing. The Doctor is MIA and Derek and his pack are looking for him because...how can the Tardis be without the Doctor. Plus, Derek wants to find Stiles and Lydia and he can't do that without the Doctor who knows everything it seems. Does the first chapter's eerie ending make sense now? How can someone fly the Tardis who isn't River and the Doctor? With proper instructions, apparently.
But how did Derek manage to find instructions? I liked his new title best and of course, it was also for a bit of a laugh because when he did the whole "I'm the Alpha now," line the first time I laughed and laughed because he seemed so proud to be Alpha in the show. But now its a sort of code name that he'll hang up once he's gotten Stiles and Lydia back and finds the Doctor. At this point he can't be Derek Hale, for the aforementioned reasons he listed at the end of the chapter. BTW, Jackson was out of character because of something that will come up and it definitely has something to do with Cardiff (no he and Jack do not hook up!) And if anyone was offended by Issac being in love with Scott, then I'm sorry but its a ship I sail (and one that seems like it might actually be plausible.) About if you're wondering what happened to Allison? Well, wait and see.
This is a To Be Continued because this chapter will be continued. So keep an eye out. And for those confused all the chapters are out-of-order for a reason, so bear with me. Hope you liked this!