#still alans baby sister. needing help with the pack she'd taken on

[bericas]

no, I am no longer funny, 'cause I miss the way you laugh.

before paige krasikeva, there is marin deaton, always on the cusp of laughing in derek's face or kissing him. when the times comes to choose one, she does neither; she turns away. none of the insults she'd teased him with had ever stung as badly as her soft smile and apologetic eyes. after paige, derek can almost deal with them both, as long as they're coming from marin again. can almost be comforted by them, until she walks away again. after kate argent, he and laura leave town long before he could've found out what marin would've done next.

a few months after derek comes back to beacon hills, marin shows up. morrell, now, but not through marriage. or, at least, not a marriage that lasted. she avoids the question in a way that's familiar and foreign all at once. when she intercepts him at the bank, months later, comfortable in the alphas' den, derek realizes just how much has changed. but not everything is different: derek leaves town again, and when he comes back, she finds him again. tells him about poison for the nogitsune in the body of the teen boy she'd been a guidance counselor to. though she clearly doesn't take joy in it, he doesn't think she's sorry for much anymore... but her eyes still look it. and her smile is still soft.

#twedit #derek x marin #marin x derek #twrarepair #derek x morrell #starring lexi underwood as young marin! #and then for my tags #marin morrell #derek hale #tw #ANYWAY. LETS HEAR IT FOR THE SPARES TO ALAN AND LAURAS HEIRS #and while derek doesnt know what alan is to the hales i like to think that marin does. assuming its a family heritage thing #so ultimately when derek makes a move marin backs down bc she might have been young then but she's never been naive #he would have to lie about his family and she would have to lie about hers and they'd never know the full truth of who the other is #and thats the best case scenario. btw. every outcome where they talk about it is worse. and then yk. paige horrors. #and so marinstarts circling around again and she doesnt mean to talk to him again but ofc he talks ot her again. confronts her. #and she says smth vague and cryptic and walks away again and then. you know. kate. the hale fire #and then years and years of change. marin morrell is different than marin deaton except for when shes nto #still alans baby sister. needing help with the pack she'd taken on #still biting off more than she can chew and still preferring to choke on it than spit it out #so. you know. of course derek stops in the guidance counselors office during his Menacing High Schoolers time when he hears who it is #and of course marin warns him at the bank. and of course this is received just as well as any other help she'd ever half-offered. #telling him how to play his hand while keeping her own hidden. so ofc she shows up at the loft when he's leaving and ofc he still leaves #but this time marin stays in time and this time she's still there when he gets back and when the nogitsune comes they both want it to lose #and they both keep the balance in their own ways. derek turning teenagers and marin turning a blind eye to human sacrifices #both in the name of harm reduction. but only marin acknowledges and accepts her role and what comes from it #so marins the only one willing to face what it might mean for the nogitsune to lose. gives stiles a chance but lets him know what she'll do #and when allison sends chris and derek to eichen in 321 she tells derek abt the lethal injection too<3 its happens off screen dw abt it<3 #and later derek will think abt what she told him until it turns into thinking abt her telling him anything until it turns into just abt her #ANYWAY. canon to ME. btw.