Teach Me How To Love Again

Derek has been an alpha for close to twelve years now. He has a beautiful daughter, an established pack, his cousin Jason who came to learn from him and stayed for Stiles. He is now a fully functional member of society whom people actually stop to talk to on his way to the supermarket or at the PTMs. Ok, so the latter is an exaggeration, because almost everybody approaches him is either a desperate single mom or a bashful, new teacher who is ignorant of the thumbrules of Beacon Hills (stay out of the preserve during the full moon and don’t go try to bat your eyes at the hot, single dad with a resting bitch face). But hey, it is a work in progress.Then the reason behind his shaking hands, his paranoia and his insomnia comes back to Beacon Hills and the person who disappeared nine years ago and the one who returned in her stead are so completely different that leaves everybody baffled.Finally, there is this matter between him and Stiles, which is unspoken and unresolved - as always. Derek watches helplessly as the relationship between his best friend and his favourite Hale (don't tell Cora) tailspins out of control.In the meanwhile she watches them. Silently and clinically. And waits...